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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ The goal of "R for Data Science" is to give you a solid foundation into using R
 
 ## Learning data science
 
-Above, I've listed the components of the data science process in roughly the order you'll encounter them in an analysis (although of course you'll iterate multiple times). This, howver, is not the order you'll encounter them in this book. This is because:
+Above, I've listed the components of the data science process in roughly the order you'll encounter them in an analysis (although of course you'll iterate multiple times). This, however, is not the order you'll encounter them in this book. This is because:
 
 * Starting with data ingest is boring. It's much more interesting to learn
   some new visualisation and manipulation tools on data that's already been