Structure of this workshop

In these notes, R commands to be entered into the console are shown in grey boxes e.g.

seq(0, 1, length = 11)

and the corresponding outputs look like:

##  [1] 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0

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Tasks

Task

All tasks will be denoted in panel boxes like this one. In the HTML version, all solutions can be toggled by hitting the Show Solution buttons. In the PDF version solutions are given in the Appendix and are linked via the Show Solution buttons.

Solution

The answer is, of course, 42.

Lecture Notes

Note

The lecture notes for all parts of this workshop can be downloaded here.