R part 1

• Getting help: Use ?blah if blah exists, ??blah to search if blah exists, help.search("blah") can be also used.
• R syntax is very similar to C. In R for global assignment use <<-, e.g., x <<- 1 will make the value of global variable x as 1, whereas if x <- 1 makes a local variable x whose value will be 1. x

Some useful R functions

|runif| For generating uniform random variable | | cat| For formatting output | | sqrt | Square root | | hist | Histogram, e.g., hist(xs, breaks = 10, main = "LCG", col = "grey")| | plot | Plotting \(xy\), e.g., plot(xs, ys, cex = 0.1, xlab = "X", ylab = "Y")| | rpois | Poisson random variable | | exp | Exponential function | | log | Logarithmic function |