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Introduction to Data Science Version 3

Chapter 10 Onward with R-Studio

As an open source program with an active user community, R enjoys constant innovation thanks to the dedicated developers who work on it. One useful innovation was the development of R-Studio, a beautiful frame to hold your copy of R. This chapter walks through the installation of R-Studio and introduces "packages," the key to the extensibility of R.

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R Commands Used in this Chapter
function() - Creates a new function
return() - Completes a function by returning a value
tabulate() - Counts occurrences of integer-valued data in a vector
unique() - Creates a list of unique values in a vector
match() - Takes two lists and returns values that are in each
mfv() - Most frequent value (from the modeest package)