Conditional programming in R

In this video, I imagined that the students have already learned how to work with numeric data, and have written a function. Here I introduce a new kind of data (logical) and show how to write ifelse statements.

Conditional programming in R

In this example, I actually made a mistake! I had no idea that return() is only for the inside of functions. I typed in the body of the function sign() in the Conditional Programming lesson, but didn’t enclose it in a function. So I got to practice live debugging! I’d love some feedback on that.

When I was teaching this, I felt like the lesson as given didn’t break it down into enough steps. I think we should

1. teach the students TRUE and FALSE (i.e. logical values and where they come from)
2. logical tests 2 < 4 etc.
3. a simple if statement
4. if and else
5. wrapping in a function (assuming functions already covered; thus creating a link back).