Lecture 2: Functions and control flow - Bio723-class/Bio723-lecture GitHub Wiki

Learning goals checklist for this class session

• Learn how to define your own functions
• Learn how to use control flow statements like if-else, for loops, etc

Slides

• Slides: Functions and control flow

In class activities

• Implement for-loop implementations of the following statistical functions (see slides and in class discussion):

  • Mean
  • Variance
  • Standard deviation
  • Covariance
  • Correlation

Assignment

Assignment Submission: Be sure to submit your assignment via Sakai, as an R Markdown file and the knit HTML document produced by your markdown file.

• Assignment 02, due 29 January 2019 by beginning of class.

  -- You can download a template R Markdown document for assignment at: homework-template.Rmd

Readings

• Read Chapters 6, 7 in the Bio 723 Workbook
• Read Chapters 5, 10-12 in R for Data Science