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While scripts are just listings of code stored outside of R, functions are objects of mode function and are stored in the workspace. Most functions require specific kinds of arguments, which must be input into the function correctly. For example, if a function calls for a matrix and a data.frame is input, the function will return an error. Since external tables are often read into the R workspace as data.frames, using a data.frame for a matrix is quite a common error. This chapter covers calling a function, using arguments in a function, and accessing the output of a function, as well as an example of using a script to do a simple mining of Twitter.
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Tollefson, M. (2019). How to Use a Script or Function. In: R Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4405-0_8
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