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christophergandrud edited this page May 28, 2012 · 3 revisions

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:

  • collect data,

  • analyse data,

  • 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).

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