--- title: "Lab 1" author: "Your Name Here" date: "" output: html_document --- ```{r} # If you don't already have the tidyverse library installed, # you will need to type install.packages("tidyverse") into the Console library(tidyverse) ``` ### 1. Changing the author field and file name. ##### (a) Change the `author:` field on the Rmd document from Your Name Here to your own name. ##### (b) Rename this file to "lab01_YourHameHere.Rmd", where YourNameHere is changed to your own name. ### 2. Hello World! Here's an R code chunk that prints the text 'Hello world!'. ```{r} print("Hello world!") ``` #### (a) Modify the code chunk below to print your name ```{r} # Edit me ```
### 3. Creating sequences We just learned about the `c()` operator, which forms a vector from its arguments. If we're trying to build a vector containing a sequence of numbers, there are several useful functions at our disposal. These are the colon operator `:` and the sequence function `seq()`. ##### `:` Colon operator: ```{r} 1:10 # Numbers 1 to 10 127:132 # Numbers 127 to 132 ``` ##### `seq` function: `seq(from, to, by)` ```{r} seq(1,10,1) # Numbers 1 to 10 seq(1,10,2) # Odd numbers from 1 to 10 seq(2,10,2) # Even numbers from 2 to 10 ``` > To learn more about a function, type `?functionname` into your console. E.g., `?seq` pulls up a Help file with the R documentation for the `seq` function. #### (a) Use `:` to output the sequence of numbers from 3 to 12 ```{r} # Edit me ``` #### (b) Use `seq()` to output the sequence of numbers from 3 to 30 in increments of 3 ```{r} print("Hi") ``` #### (c) Save the sequence from (a) as a variable `x`, and the sequence from (b) as a variable `y`. Output their product `x*y` ```{r} # Edit me ```
### 4. Cars data We'll look at data frame and plotting in much more detail in later classes. For a previous of what's to come, here's a very basic example. For this example we'll use a very simple dataset. The `cars` data comes with the default installation of R. To see the first few columns of the data, just type `head(cars)`. ```{r} head(cars) ``` We'll do a bad thing here and use the `attach()` command, which will allow us to access the `speed` and `dist` columns of `cars` as though they were vectors in our workspace. ```{r} attach(cars) # Using this command is poor style. We will avoid it in the future. speed dist ``` #### (a) Calculate the average and standard deviation of speed and distance. ```{r} # Edit me ```

We can easily produce a histogram of stopping distance using the `qplot` function. ```{r} qplot(dist) # Histogram of stopping distance ``` The `qplot(x,y,...)` function can also be used to plot a vector `y` against a vector `x`. You can type `?qplot` into the Console to learn more about the basic qplot function. #### (b) Use the `qplot(x,y)` function to create a scatterplot of dist against speed. ```{r} # Edit me ```