R PROGRAMMING
JOURNAL: WESLEY HUANG

Installation Challenges and Solutions Installing R and RStudio on my desktop was mostly smooth, but I did run into a couple of small issues along the way. After installing R from CRAN and then opening RStudio for the first time, RStudio did not immediately recognize that R was installed. At first, I thought I had missed a step or downloaded the wrong version. I also noticed that RStudio was opening, but the console was not behaving as expected, which was a little confusing s

In this final project, I created my own R package called EasyStats. The purpose of this package is to provide simple tools for basic data cleaning, summary statistics, and visualization. I wanted the package to be beginner friendly, so I included functions that are easy to understand and useful for working with small datasets in R. The package includes three main functions. The first function, summary_stats(), calculates basic summary statistics like the mean, median, minimu

In this assignment, I learned how to use R Markdown to combine writing, code, and output into a single document. I created an R Markdown file that included a title, author information, written explanations, LaTeX math expressions, and multiple code chunks that loaded data, generated summary statistics, and created a visualization. One thing I found interesting was how everything updates automatically when the document is knitted. Instead of writing a report separately and cop