Loops in R

Learning Objectives

This week, students will:

• Learn the structure of loops

Practice Objectives

• Vectorized functions
• Creating functions

Setup your RStudio project (5 min)

• 🎗️ Structuring your files into a project is a best practice for good data science!
• Open your RStudio project for the class; I called mine “fall-2022”.
• Open a new file, name it “loops.Rmd”, and save it to your “documents” folder.

Basics of for loops

Exercise 1: Basics of for loops (30 min)

Looping over functions

Exercise 2: Mass of dinosaurs with loops (30 min)