Welcome to Introduction to R! The R programming language is very popular among mathematicians, especially statisticians. It's a free, comprehensive tool that is used for data analysis and many statistical procedures.
This course will teach you the basics of R. After completing this course you should know enough R to do simple data analysis on your own.
On the right side of this panel, there is an editor that you will be using to type R code as you work through the exercises in this course. Execute the code by pressing the button, R will run the code and return the result in the Result tab below the Code Editor.
The simplest code you can write in R is just a single number:
5
In that case, R will simply print back the number's value as the result.
Type the number 3 in the Code Editor, and click the button.
Observe that R responds by printing the value of the number you typed. We'll explain why it also displays[1] later in the course.
