4 Thurs Sept 17: Getting started with R

You need to have the R and RStudio softwares installed before you can proceed with the next class. Your answer to the question is due Thursday Sept 24.

4.1 Required reading

You are required to read and complete all the exercises in Chapters 1 Introduction, 3 R and RStudio, and 4 Finding your way around RStudio of:

Quantitative skills for biology https://ahurford.github.io/quant-guide-all-courses/

When you are finished you should have R and RStudio installed on your computer, or you should be familar with running RStudio Cloud.

4.2 Questions

1. Write 1 paragraph describing your experience completing the the exercises. [5 marks. You will receive full marks for attempting the question and submitting an answer.]

4.3 Just for fun

Type into the R Console:

install.packages("praise")
require("praise")
praise()