Furman University
Introduction to R[1],2 , Part I
We are going to learn some of the basics for R, a language for statistical computing and graphics. It is available for free from . Hopefully you have already downloaded it and installed it on your computer. Today we will practice some basic data manipulation However, R has a huge number of different capabilities; and we will only be able to cover a few of them in class. I would strongly encourage all of you to go over the Intro to R documentation found at the R project web site
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Numerical Vectors
The most basic type of data structure in R is a vector. Vectors are a series of elements of a single data type – numbers, characters, logical statements, etc. - contained in one named object. We are going to start by creating and manipulating vectors of numbers.
The first thing we want to do is use the c(concatenate) function to create a short numerical vector. The c function combines multiple elements into a single vector in the order in which they appear. For example type:
Monkeys = c(1,20,9)
This will create a vector named Monkeys containing these three numbers. Commands that do not include an assignment will print the output of the command to the screen. (Sometimes you will see " ................
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