This report is automatically generated with the R package knitr (version 1.6) .

# Chapter 1 - Introducing R: The Big Picture
# Recognizing the Benefits of Using R
## It comes as free, open-source code
### It runs anywhere
### It supports extensions
### It provides an engaged community
### It connects with other languages
# Looking At Some of the Unique Features of R
## Performing multiple calculations with vectors
x <- 1:5
x
## [1] 1 2 3 4 5
x + 2
## [1] 3 4 5 6 7
x + 6:10
## [1]  7  9 11 13 15
## Processing more than just statistics
## Running code without a compiler

The R session information (including the OS info, R version and all packages used):

    sessionInfo()
## R version 3.0.3 (2014-03-06)
## Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
## 
## locale:
## [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252   
## [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                           
## [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252    
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
## 
## other attached packages:
##  [1] knitr_1.6          rfordummies_0.0-01 foreign_0.8-59     ggplot2_1.0.0     
##  [5] reshape2_1.4       XLConnect_0.2-7    sos_1.3-8          brew_1.0-6        
##  [9] stringr_0.6.2      fortunes_1.5-2     devtools_1.5       Revobase_7.3.0    
## [13] RevoMods_7.3.0     RevoScaleR_7.3.0   lattice_0.20-27    rpart_4.1-2       
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] codetools_0.2-8  colorspace_1.2-4 digest_0.6.4     evaluate_0.5.5   foreach_1.4.2   
##  [6] formatR_0.10     grid_3.0.3       gtable_0.1.2     highr_0.3        httr_0.3        
## [11] iterators_1.0.7  labeling_0.2     MASS_7.3-33      memoise_0.2.1    munsell_0.4.2   
## [16] parallel_3.0.3   plyr_1.8.1       proto_0.3-10     Rcpp_0.11.2      RCurl_1.95-4.1  
## [21] rJava_0.9-6      roxygen2_4.0.1   scales_0.2.4     tools_3.0.3      whisker_0.3-2
    Sys.time()
## [1] "2014-07-26 22:45:11 BST"