Beginning R 4: From Beginner to Pro

© Matt Wiley, Joshua F. Wiley 2020

M. Wiley, J. F. WileyBeginning R 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6053-1_2

2. Installing Packages and Using Libraries

Matt Wiley¹  and Joshua F. Wiley²

(1)

Victoria College, Victoria, TX, USA

(2)

Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

 

You installed R and RStudio and are now familiar with them. Now it is time to discover another feature of R that will help you learn statistics.

In Chapter 1, your first R script used the function plot(x = mtcars$wt, y = mtcars$mpg). Then, just like magic, a graph appeared in your lower-right plot pane – except it was not magic. Behind the scenes, you were secretly using the graphics [15] package.

What is a package? When a programmer writes ...