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_

LabInstance R

Quickstart

This is a quickstart guide of howto use this LabInstance

• Working Directory

/root

• Default user

root

install R packages

Here is a simple code to install 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