Open source R for Data Science

 Github repository: https://github.com/aishwaryashiv10/checkpoints Often times I face the difficulty of not being able to save all my results from my R console to a file to refer back to it later. For this reason I created a package called 'checkpoints' to be able to save all the R script input as well as the console output. This package will be able to export the input and output into a document and will be updated each time you run or rerun a code. This document will also save a timestamp letting you know the exact time it was updated. I first started off by defining an object called my_function to log the console outputs into the log file. Then I created a logger function that takes two arguments: Msg(the message to log) and a file_name (the name of the log file). Inside the function, we use the cat function to append the message to the log file, along with the current date and time. I then created an on.Load function that sets the default log file name. I also created a si...

 I felt that Markdown was pretty simple on R studio as it lays out the format for you when you select the "R markdown" option. I used the existing R data set cars to get the data as well as create a plot from the data. The plot was a scatter plot that compared the distance vs the speed. However, I need to explore more of the different Markdown features in order to be more comfortable with it.