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A computer language is described by its and semantics; where syntax is about the grammar of the language and semantics the meaning behind the sentence. And jumping into a new programming language correlates to visiting a foreign country with only that ninth grade Spanish 101 class under your belt; there is no better way to learn than to immerse yourself in the environment! Although it’ll be painful early on and your nose will surely bleed, eventually you’ll learn the dialect and the quirks that come along with it.
Programming is like kicking yourself in the face, sooner or later your nose will bleed.
Kyle Woodbury
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You can access this tutorial at http://dss.princeton.edu/training/RStudio101.pdf
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You can assess the script editor tutorial at https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200484448-Editing-and-Executing-Code
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See http://developer.r-project.org/equalAssign.html for more details.
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Google’s style guide can be found at https://google.github.io/styleguide/Rguide.xml and Hadley Wickham’s can be found at http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Style.html
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Go to RStudio on the menu bar then Preferences > Code > Display and you can select the “show margin” option and set the margin to 80.
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Boehmke, B.C. (2016). The Basics. In: Data Wrangling with R. Use R!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45599-0_3
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