R Bar Week #1: The Basics

• R is a language built for statistics

• A kind of happy medium between stata and python

  • One end of the scale is python = lots of engineering purposes and/or data science
  • The other end of the scale is stata = traditional statistics and economic tool

• What you need to do

  • install R ('https://cran.r-project.org')
  • install Rstudio ('https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/')
    • You want RStudio Dekstop

Addition: +

2 + 2

[1] 4

Subtraction: -

5 - 2

[1] 3

Multiplication: *

1 * 4

[1] 4

Try it on your own!

Division: /

25 / 5

[1] 5

Exponentiation: ^

5^2

[1] 25

Modulo: %%

#Modulo
4 %% 2

[1] 0