Course content
This Best Practices guide provides an overview of RStudio for users who have had prior training in the SAS programming language, but are new to the R language. It does not make one-to-one comparisons with SAS commands, statements or syntax, but points out important similarities and differences between SAS and R where appropriate, in an attempt to aid the transition to the R language for users familiar with SAS programming.
This document may also serve as a stand-alone introduction to RStudio.
Topics covered include:
- The RStudio Interface
- R Syntax
- R Objects
- R Functions
- Getting Data into RStudio
- Viewing Data in RStudio
- Basic Data Manipulation
- Statistical Analysis in R
- Getting Data out of RStudio
- Additional Resources
Course format/structure
This guide is provided as a PDF document for review and download. To download the free R software package for use on your computer visit: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
Access fee
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