Chapter 1 Introduction to R

The main point of this chapter is for readers who have no experience in R. If you have R and Rstudio in your computer and are already at ease with their basic operation, you should start immediatly with Chapter 2.

Learning Objectives:

• What is R? What is RStudio?

• Install R an RStudio

• Familiarize with RStudio interface

• Use interactive console and code editor

• Assignment statement

• Hello world

• Save R program and R data files

• Add comment to your code