So far we have only seen the command line interface (CLI) in R. Remember though R is a programming language, and R provides all the programming constructs we might know and love from other programming languages.
These help topics will provide a quick introduction to the programming constructs available to us.
?Syntax?Paren?Control?functionWe should note
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R is case-sensitive
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R uses
1as its starting index not0. So the first element will be[1].
Additional Resources
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Chapter 4 of these lecture notes does a great job covering the basics of R programming.
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The "Functions" section of Advanced R gives a very thorough understanding of using functions in R.
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R Language for Programmers covers many of the idiosyncrasies of R programming.
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