Chapter 1. A Simple Guide to R
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Installing packages and getting help in R
- Data types in R
- Special values in R
- Matrices in R
- Editing a matrix in R
- Data frames in R
- Editing a data frame in R
- Importing data in R
- Exporting data in R
- Writing a function in R
- Writing if else statements in R
- Basic loops in R
- Nested loops in R
- The apply, lapply, sapply, and tapply functions
- Using par to beautify a plot in R
- Saving plots
Installing packages and getting help in R
If you are a new user and have never launched R, you must definitely start the learning process by understanding the use of install.packages(), library(), and getting help in R. R comes loaded with some basic packages, but the R community is rapidly growing and ...
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