# The R Project for Statistical Computing

R is an open source programming language. It has become one of the powerful choices for statistical analysis. R helps you to get big picture of your data by calculating statistical parameters like mean, standard deviation, correlation etc.

[wikipedia.org/wiki/R_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language))


##  LabInstance R


![alt text](images/swarmlab-network.png "")


## Quickstart

This is a quickstart guide of howto use this *LabInstance*

- Working Directory

> /root

- Default user

> root


Here is a simple code to reinstall all the necessary R packages to keep you up and running. The script will check whether the required packages have been installed, if not, it will install them accordingly.

> install <- function(packages){
>   new.packages <- packages[!(packages %in% installed.packages()[, "Package"])]
>   if (length(new.packages)) 
>     install.packages(new.packages, dependencies = TRUE)
>   sapply(packages, require, character.only = TRUE)
> }
>  
> required.packages <- c("package1", "package2" )
> install(required.packages)


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**MORE INFO** 

See swarmlab and examples directory
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