By the end of this week, students should be able to

  • Gain an understanding of project-oriented workflow
    • by creating an Rproj using RStudio
    • by using relative file paths to access local files under the Rproj folder
  • Explain
    • an assignment (symbols/variable names, <-, values)
    • data types of atomic vectors
  • Read function help page with ?fun
  • Write R code to
    • assign values to symbols
    • print objects to screen
    • perform arithmetic calculations and comparisons
    • subset and modify vectors with []
    • use functions from base R and other packages