Reflection Questions

how was the install process? anything for future students?

it was fine, easy to install, more than plenty of instructions available to get it on my laptop.

have you used statistical software before?

i have used JASP before for stats class

Installing New Packages

#install.packages("psych")
#install.packages("psychTools")

Calling packages

library(psych)
library(psychTools)

Call in sample data “epi.bfi” from the psychTools package

data("epi.bfi")
summary(epi.bfi)
##       epiE            epiS            epiImp          epilie     
##  Min.   : 1.00   Min.   : 0.000   Min.   :0.000   Min.   :0.000  
##  1st Qu.:11.00   1st Qu.: 6.000   1st Qu.:3.000   1st Qu.:1.000  
##  Median :14.00   Median : 8.000   Median :4.000   Median :2.000  
##  Mean   :13.33   Mean   : 7.584   Mean   :4.368   Mean   :2.377  
##  3rd Qu.:16.00   3rd Qu.: 9.500   3rd Qu.:6.000   3rd Qu.:3.000  
##  Max.   :22.00   Max.   :13.000   Max.   :9.000   Max.   :7.000  
##     epiNeur         bfagree          bfcon           bfext      
##  Min.   : 0.00   Min.   : 74.0   Min.   : 53.0   Min.   :  8.0  
##  1st Qu.: 7.00   1st Qu.:112.0   1st Qu.: 99.0   1st Qu.: 87.5  
##  Median :10.00   Median :126.0   Median :114.0   Median :104.0  
##  Mean   :10.41   Mean   :125.0   Mean   :113.3   Mean   :102.2  
##  3rd Qu.:14.00   3rd Qu.:136.5   3rd Qu.:128.5   3rd Qu.:118.0  
##  Max.   :23.00   Max.   :167.0   Max.   :178.0   Max.   :168.0  
##      bfneur           bfopen           bdi            traitanx    
##  Min.   : 34.00   Min.   : 73.0   Min.   : 0.000   Min.   :22.00  
##  1st Qu.: 70.00   1st Qu.:110.0   1st Qu.: 3.000   1st Qu.:32.00  
##  Median : 90.00   Median :125.0   Median : 6.000   Median :38.00  
##  Mean   : 87.97   Mean   :123.4   Mean   : 6.779   Mean   :39.01  
##  3rd Qu.:104.00   3rd Qu.:136.5   3rd Qu.: 9.000   3rd Qu.:44.00  
##  Max.   :152.00   Max.   :173.0   Max.   :27.000   Max.   :71.00  
##     stateanx    
##  Min.   :21.00  
##  1st Qu.:32.00  
##  Median :38.00  
##  Mean   :39.85  
##  3rd Qu.:46.50  
##  Max.   :79.00

run the histogram and mean functions on “bdi” variable

hist(epi.bfi$bdi)

mean(epi.bfi$bdi)
## [1] 6.779221

This is the end of the first R lab!