R for Data Science

Ch4: Workflow: basics

Coding basics

R as a calculator

3 - 1.5

## [1] 1.5

x <- 4 -2
x

## [1] 2

assignment symbol

What’s in a name?

Calling functions

Use of TAB

seq(from = 0, to = 16, by = 2)

## [1]  0  2  4  6  8 10 12 14 16

continuation character, +

seq(from = 0, to = 16, by = 2)

## [1]  0  2  4  6  8 10 12 14 16

Printing to screen

y <- seq(from = 0, to = 16, by = 2)
y

## [1]  0  2  4  6  8 10 12 14 16