By the end of week 1 you should be able to:

• Install the R and RStudio software packages
• Download and install the swirl package for R
• Describe the history of the S and R programming lectures
• Describe the differences between atomic data types
• Execute basic arithmetic operations
• Subset R objects using the "[", "[[", and "$" operators and logical vectors
• Describe the explicit coercion feature of R
• Remove missing (NA) values from a vector