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Navigating the RStudio environment

Navigating the RStudio environment - R Tutorial

From the course: R for Data Science: Analysis and Visualization

Navigating the RStudio environment

- [Instructor] If you have the Exercise Files and you open them up, you'll see R for Data Science.Rproj, which is an R project file. And if you have RStudio installed and you double-click on this, it will open up RStudio. So it looks like this. And I want to run you through some of the elements here that are going to be relevant to our course. Number one is if you come over here to where it says, "Files," you'll see these same files listed, including the R for Data Science.Rproj. And then another one that's important is way up here in the top right corner where it says, "Exercise Files." That includes these elements that we've accessed. And the nice thing about using in our project is it makes it easy for R to find your various files without ha you having to specify an entire file path that might be really long cryptic. If you come here and open up code, let's go to this first one, 02_04_Navigating.R. And when we open that, we get this script. This is the R program that we're going to…

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