BIOL 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nitrogen Trichloride, Aspirin, Noaa Commissioned Officer Corps
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Goals: learning how to start with r and rstudio, use the command line, use functions and vectors in r. R is a computer program that allows an extraordinary range of statistical calculations. It is a free program, mainly written by voluntary contributions from statisticians around the world. R is available on most operating systems, including windows, mac os, and linux. R can make graphics and do statistical calculations. It is also a full- fledged computing language. In this manual, we will only scratch the surface of what r can do. Rstudio is a separate program, also free, that provides a more elegant. Getting started front end for r. rstudio allows you to easily organize separate windows for r commands, graphic, help, etc. in one place. If your computer does not already have a version of r and rstudio installed, go to http://www. zoology. ubc. ca/~whitlock/bio300/labs/downloadingr. html for instructions about getting set up.
