Overview of part 1 of this tutorial

Overview

At the end of this first part of the tutorial you should be able to:

• Converting an .xls file into a .csv file with seperators that could be readed by R;
• Setting the working directory of the R session, and save and load R sessions;
• Checking with four criteria if the data set if suitable for analysis;
• Importing a csv file into the R console;
• Defining a variable with R;
• Create a matrix of the variable that is created for the data set;
• Let R present descriptive statistics based on the imported data;
• Execute statistical functions/formulas on the data set with R;
• Making calculations with R;
• Finding and retreiving information about the data set in R.

- End of Part 1 -