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Introduction to Data Science Version 3

Chapter 4 Getting Started with R

"R" is an open source software program, developed by volunteers as a service to the community of scientists, researchers, and data analysts who use it. R is free to download and use. Lots of advice and guidance is available online to help users learn R, which is good because it is a powerful and complex program, in reality a full featured programming language dedicated to data.

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Test Yourself
R Functions Used in This Chapter
c() Concatenates data elements together
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sum() Adds data elements
range() Max value minus min value
mean() The average