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The R Language
christophergandrud edited this page May 28, 2012
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R is a language that we can use to communicate with our computers. In this course we use the R language to tell our computers to:
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collect data,
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analyse data,
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and present the results.
In this course we will also use the R language to communicate to each other about how we did these things.
Like regular (natural) languages, R has a syntax with nouns and verbs. The nouns are called objects and the verbs are called commands or functions (Google's R Style Guide actually recommends using verbs to describe functions).