Open Online R Stream - 2021/02/18
News, Resources, Errata/Additions
Wolfgang Viechtbauer
Maastricht University
R Related News
Announcing RStudio 1.4
https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/19/announcing-rstudio-1-4/
R version 4.0.4 has been released
codename “Lost Library Book”
What are those version names?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13478375/is-there-any-authoritative-documentation-on-r-release-nicknames
R Related Resources
An Introduction to R
https://alexd106.github.io/intro2R/
https://intro2r.com
Errata / Additions
when reading in tab-delimited data, be careful when the dataset includes a ‘hash’ symbol (
#
)
read.table()
by default assumes that anything after a
#
is a comment and not actual data
can change this via the
comment.char
argument (or use
read.delim()
)