R: Recipes for Analysis, Visualization and Machine Learning

Writing a function in R

Most of the tasks in R are performed using functions. A function in R has the same utility as functions in Arithmetic.

Getting ready

In order to write a simple function in R, we must first open a new R script by navigating to File | New file.

How to do it…

We write a very simple function that accepts two values and adds them together. Copy and paste the code in the new blank R script:

add = function (x,y){
  x+y
}

How it works…

A function in R should be defined by function(). Once we define our function, we need to save it as a .r file. Note that the name of the file should be the same as the function; hence we save our function with name add.r.

In order to use the add() function in the R command window, we need to source the file ...