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R Tutorial

R is a programming language.

R is often used for statistical computing and graphical presentation to analyze and visualize data.

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Example

How to output some text, and how to do a simple calculation in R:

"Hello World!"
5 + 5

Result:

[1] "Hello World!"
[1] 10
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Example

How you can use R to easily create a graph with numbers from 1 to 10 on both the x and y axis:

plot(1:10)

Result:

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Exercise:

Insert the missing part of the code below to output "Hello World".

Hello World

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