Chapter 4 The different faces of R code: The console, scripts & RMarkdown

There are a number of ways to interact with R

• Directly in the console, like a scientific calculator
• Using script files (.R) with
• R code types out and sent over to the console
• notes “commented out” using hastags “#”
• rmarkdown (.Rmd) files with
• R code in species code chunks
• notes written like in a word precessor
• formatting using markdown, a markup language

This chapter will briefly introduce these different ways of working in R