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Stat20023: Engineering Data Analysis

Introduction to R
Topics
• Introduction to R and R Studio
• Installation Process
• Data Types
• Data Structures

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What is R?
• R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It’s
open source and therefore available free of charge.

• R is an object oriented programming language where we create objects

and manipulate them as intended. Objects can be data frames, vectors,
matrices, lists, raw data, spatial objects, maps

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Why use R for data analysis?
• R is free to download and use
• R is open-source
• Data processing in R is very easy
• Data visualization tools in R are very extensive
• Advanced functionality often used in practice by scientists are available in R

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What is ?

A free, open source integrated development

environment or IDE for R

RStudio helps keep R more organized and it adds more

functionality to it

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Installation Steps
• Go to https://cran.r-project.org/
• Select version applicable to your computer

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Installation Steps For Windows users

• Click install R for the first time

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Installation Steps For Windows users

• Select Download R 4.0.3 for Windows

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Installation Steps For Windows users

• Click Download R 4.0.3 for Windows

• By selecting Download R 4.0.3 for Windows, it will automatically download the .exe file

• Open the .exe file

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Installation Steps For Windows users

• Click Download R 4.0.3 for Windows

• By selecting Download R 4.0.3 for Windows, it will automatically download the .exe file

• Open the .exe file

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Installation Steps For Windows users

• Select Destination Location

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Installation Steps For Windows users

• Select Components

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Installation Steps For Windows users

• Select Start Menu Folder • Select Additional Tasks

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Installation Steps For Windows users

• Wait until the installation finish

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 Installation Steps
• Go to
https://rstudio.com/
products/rstudio/do
wnload/
• Select RStudio
Desktop with Open
Source License
 Installation Steps
For Windows users

Stat20023: Engineering Data Analysis

 Installation Steps
For Windows users

Stat20023: Engineering Data Analysis

 Installation Steps
For Windows users

Stat20023: Engineering Data Analysis

 Installation Steps
For Windows users

Stat20023: Engineering Data Analysis