Look at Your Data

Become familiar with reading and writing data, computing summary statistics and visual data exploration as the basics of data analysis.

Learning objectives

At the end of this unit you should be able to

• read and write tabulated data,
• compute some summary statistics,
• use R’s basic plot functionality to quickly visualize your data.

Additional learning material can be found in the accompanying Base R course, e.g. in- and output of data or simple visualizations.

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