2. The R
Environment
Now that R
is downloaded and installed, it is time to get familiar with how to use R
. The basic R
interface on Windows is fairly Spartan, as seen in Figure 2.1. The Mac interface (Figure 2.2) has some extra features and Linux has far fewer, being just a terminal.
Unlike other languages, R
is very interactive. That is, results can be seen one command at a time. Languages such as C++ require that an entire section of code be written, ...
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