7) Conditionals

📖 Lecture

If-else statements are one of the fundamental programming structures available in all programming languages.

Simply put, an if-else statement executes a block of code if a specified condition is true. If the condition is false, another block of code can be executed.

🎯 Objectives

At the end of this week you will be able to:

• Write if-else statements to handle simple conditions
• Use if-else statements when writing functions to decide what code to execute

📚 Reading

• https://www.gastonsanchez.com/R-coding-basics/5-03-conditionals.html

🔬 Lab

You will be writing more functions, including if-else statements as part of the body of a function to handle one or more conditions.