2.1 Goals

The goals of this chapter are for you to be able to:

• have an appreciation of the richness of data, the extent to which data are diverse but also ubiquitous
  
• be familiar with some of the major sources of free and publicly available data repositories and archives
  
• create and manipulate vector and data frame variables in R
  
• to be able to import and export simple text files e.g., CSV into/from an R program
• as part of the Week 2 seminar import a remote file containing a time series visualise it using a simple smoother Link coming soon!

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