Welcome to your first training session!
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  1. Create a variable called a and assign the number 2017 to it!
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  # use the "<-" operator for variable assignments:
  a <- 2017
  1. Calculate the square root of 1089 and save the result in variable b!
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  # use the built- in function "sqrt()" and the number 1089 as an argument:
  b <- sqrt(1089)
  1. Calculate the sum of a and b!
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  # done via standard operators:
  a + b
  ## [1] 2050
  1. Overwrite variable a by assigning the value 2018 to it!
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  # simply assign a new value to an existing variable in order to overwrite it
  a <- 2018
  1. Make a copy of variable b and name it c!
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  # variable assignment works from right (existing variable) to left (new variable):
  c <- b
  1. Create your own function called my.fun(), which requires three variables as input. The function should generate the square root of the product of all three variables and return one numeric value!
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  my.fun <- function( var1, var2, var3 ) {
    result <- sqrt( var1 * var2 * var3 )
    return(result)
  }
  1. Use a, b and c (from the previous tasks) as input into my.fun() and save the output to variable d! Check the resulting value!
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  d <- my.fun(a, b, c)
  d
  ## [1] 1482.431