7) Conditionals

📖 Lecture

This week we introduce the notion of R expressions, and we provide the syntax used by R to handle if-else statements and related conditionals constructs.

🎯 Objectives

At the end of this week you will be able to:

• Write if-else statements to handle simple conditions
• Use the vectorized function ifelse()
• Describe what curly braces {...} are used for in R.

📚 Reading

• https://www.gastonsanchez.com/R-coding-basics/5-03-conditionals.html

• https://www.gastonsanchez.com/R-coding-basics/5-02-expressions.html

🔬 Lab

Work with some basic if-else statements and related functions.