Statistics and Statistical Programming (Winter 2017)/R lecture outline: Week 3

• problems folks ran into:
  • loading data:
    • load() versus read.csv()
    • when things don't coopreate...
    • library(foreign)
• other things that have come up
  • dates with POSIXct(). dates will almost always be given to you as characters, and you need to parse them
  • ordered() — really just a type of factor for ordinal data
• new things that are going to be very useful
  • defining functions
  • merge()
• stuff related to distributions
  • qnorm(), qbinom(), etc