Answer to Question #229897 in Economics for Icyyy

Question

What do you think will be your advantage in taking up this course with the software applications R and RStudio? Talk about your strengths and weaknesses with regard to the use of technology.

Answer 1

The advantages of RStudio are:

1) RStudio is designed to make it easy to write scripts.

2) RStudio makes it convenient to view and interact with the objects stored in your environment.

3) RStudio makes it easy to set your working directory and access files on your computer.

4) RStudio makes graphics much more accessible for a casual user.

R is a programming language for statistical computing and graphics that you can use to clean, analyze, and graph your data. It is widely used by researchers from diverse disciplines to estimate and display results and by teachers of statistics and research methods.