STAT 542 Homework 1

For everyone:

Do Problems 1-11 in Appendix B.6.

For graduate students (extra credit for undergrads):

Problem 13 in Appendix B.6.

NOTE:  For questions that ask about the behavior and usage of R functions, you can type 
help(name_of_function)
with the name of the function in parentheses in order to learn about the function.

HINT:  For the last question of Problem 8, note that Sys.time is typically called without any arguments, i.e.
Sys.time()