Reflection Questions

How was the R install Process? The installing itself wasn’t too bad, a bit of waiting and a bit of anxiety about accidentally installing the wrong file but otherwise painless.

How was the course folder organization process? It took a minute, my connection was slow so I fell behind in the process and panicked a little trying to get caught up, but once I managed to link my school onedrive to the computer it went pretty smoothly.

Installing new packages

#install.packages("psych")
#install.packages("psychTools")
#personal note for future reference: hastags added here to keep "knit" tool from trying to install packages during final run

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 historgram and mean functions on “bdi” variable

hist(epi.bfi$bdi)

# personal note: the dollar sign is to tell R that we want only the bdi variable from the data set
mean(epi.bfi$bdi)
## [1] 6.779221

This is the end of the First R Lab – we did it! :)