Programming Background
Claudia Donahue 2022-06-06
My Experience So Far
The majority of my programming experience was in the Fall 2021 term in
ISE 535 Intro to Python. I also did a weeklong course,
Intro to R Programming in 2018, and I took an introductory course in
SAS during the summer of 2021. Unfortunately, at work I usually use
Excel, and my programming gains atrophy quickly.
My thoughts on R so far in this course: I really like using Markdown
in R to create a readable document. I think that this tool/skill will
help me use R at work to create products for my coworkers who may not
know anything about R or have any interest. And also for those who do,
so they could understand and reproduce my work.
I also like using RStudio with Github so far, for version control. I have had trouble working on projects with partners/groups because we are all working on one file and can’t figure out how to best merge changes, so one team member does most of the work.
I don’t think I will miss much about other programming languages, especially Python since I am using it regularly in another course this summer! I do not consider R any more or less difficult than the other programming languages I have experienced, and it is much easier than foreign languages I have tried to learn, specifically Russian and French.
R Markdown Output
Below, I am going to plot the Cars data set to make sure I can get the image to show up on my blog post:
plot(cars, xlab = "Speed (mph)", ylab = "Stopping distance (ft)",
las = 1, xlim = c(0, 25))
