Chapter 5: RStudio Basics: R as a Calculator & Data Handling in R

Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter you should be able to:

• Become familiar with writing programs in R and RStudio
• Become familiar with basic programming terminology and concepts
• Be capable users of the R, RStudio, and RMarkdown statistical package
• Become familiar with importing and exporting various data files in the R environment
• Summarize data in R
• Become familiar with calculation in R and creating variables
• Develop different types of objects and data in R