Conclusion

If you have gone through all the previous chapters in this short book, you now have some understanding and familiarity with the logic of the R language and the R Studio environment. You understand how to create basic objects such as vectors and matrices, but also how to examine datasets. You also understand that we apply functions to objects for the purpose of transforming them, manipulating them, or extracting information from them. And we use the function arguments to refine our transformation, manipulation, or information-extraction from our objects.

As you continue your journey into R, the objects and functions will get more sophisticated and complex but this underlying logic will not change: we apply functions to objects for our purposes. In the process, you will probably new to use new libraries or packages that you now know how to install and load.

Hopefully, working through this short book has convinced you that coding and using a programming language such as R is not some mysterious skill only available to the most advanced computer scientists. Everyone can do it.

If you wish to save it, the entire video series for this book is below or at the link.

Good luck as you move on to the next steps of your journey in statistics or data science using R. And for those of you taking a class, good luck with this and the subsequent units.