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R – Week 1

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Why R?
• R is Free!
• R is open source
• R runs on anything you run
• R is state of the art – researchers provide their methods for FREE!
• R has Excellent graphics
• R has an active user community, so help is close at hand
• R is excellent for simulation, programming, computer intensive
analyses etc.
• R forces you to THINK!
• R puts you at a distinct advantage in the workforce

Wrong answer: Dr. Rostant is evil, and wants us all to fail at life.

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Disadvantages
• Steep learning curve
• Minimal GUI (try TINN-R or R-Studio)
• No commercial support
• Easy to make mistakes and not know
• Data prep and cleaning can be tricky
• Some people can be mean on the R listserve.

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Learning R…….

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R listserve……

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What is R?
• A comprehensive statistical and graphical
programming language which is a dialect of
the S language.
• Initially written by Ross Ihaka and Robert
Gentleman at Department of Statistics of the
University of Aukland during the 1990s

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Where can I get R?

• https://cran.r-project.org/
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How do I start R up?

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How does it work?
• You can go through “Introduction to R” in
Datacamp.

• This is a free course.

• https://www.datacamp.com/courses/free-
introduction-to-r

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The importance of documenting your
code

•#

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Editors
• Running R code requires you to type the code and
click enter.
• We recommend you use a text editor for copying
and passing into R.
• This allows you to easily save code.
• DO NOT USE MICROSOFT WORD!!!
• R’s own text editor, or Notepad
• Recommended editors: Tinn-R; Rstudio
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinn-r/
• http://www.rstudio.com/

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Help Files and Newsgroups
• Wanna know something about a particular
command in R? Precede it with a ?
– ?boxplot
• Can also use help
– help(boxplot)

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Help files

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What’s with that + sign!
• If you get a + sign at the end of a line of code,
it indicates that R expects more code.

• Either put in the extra bit of code, or press


escape to abort the command.

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R help site

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Quitting R
• q()

• Before exiting, it will ask you whether you


want to save the workspace. DO NOT SAVE IN
THE DEFAULT LOCATION, if at all!

• q(save = “no”) quits without saving.

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What to do now?
Attempt the Introduction to R course

Download R

Try practicing in R using the links provided in this


lecture

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