R Basics

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Welcome

In this tutorial, we will cover the basics of R needed for all other tutorials. Once done, you should understand Objects, Functions, and Operators. Having a firm understanding of these concepts are necessary building blocks for more advanced work in R.

Use the sidebar or the Next button at the bottom of each page to work through the tutorial in order.

Commands used in this tutorial

Command	Purpose
<-	Assignment — create objects
c()	Concatenate values into a vector
data.frame()	Create a dataframe
#	Comment — R ignores this line
class()	Check an object’s class
$	Access a column in a dataframe
str()	View an object’s full structure

When you’re ready, click Next below to begin with Objects.