Learning Statistics with R - A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners, 2018a

Figure 3.6: The options window in Rstudio. On a Mac, you can open this window by going to the
“Rstudio” menu and selecting “Preferences”. On a Windows machine you go to the “Tools” menu and
select “Global Options”.
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this again (see Figure 3.6). On a Mac, you can open this window by going to the “Rstudio” menu and
selecting “Preferences”. On a Windows machine you go to the “Tools” menu and select “Global Options”.
Under the “General” tab you’ll see an option that reads “Save workspace to .Rdata on exit”. By default
this is set to “ask”. If you want R to stop asking, change it to “never”.
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Summary
Every book that tries to introduce basic programming ideas to novices has to cover roughly the same
topics, and in roughly the same order. Mine is no exception, and so in the grand tradition of doing it
just the same way everyone else did it, this chapter covered the following topics:
• Getting started. We downloaded and installed R and Rstudio (Section 3.1).
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