Syllabus - Open Source Software Lab (Linux and R) (IT 407)

Introduction to LINUX Operating System

Overview of popular Linux distributions, Hardware requirements for Linux, Installation of LINUX distributions Internal And External Commands, Command Structure, general-purpose utilities: cal, date, echo, printf, bc, script, passwd, PATH, who, uname, tty, stty, pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir

Handling files

The File System, cat, cp, rm, mv, more, file, ls, wc, pg, cmp, comm, diff, gzip, tar, zip, df, du, mount, umount, chmod, VI editor, security by file permissions commands: chmod, find, locate, Compiling C/C++ files, File processing: awk, sed, Commands: gcc, sh. Networking commands: ping, telnet, ftp, arp, rlogin, other commands: make, apt-get, Accessing remote servers and files, Editing and manipulating files, System Administration: Configuration of Linux, Connecting to remote machines-ftp, telnet, Adding and removing users.

Programming in Linux

Bash shell scripting, Interactive scripts, shell variables, assigning values to variables, positional parameters, command line arguments, arithmetic in shell script, exit, status of a command, sleep and wait, script termination, Decision taking, -if else, nested if, file tests, string tests, case control structure, Loop control, break, continue, logical operators and executing Script, Debugging a script, executing multiple scripts, other shell script examples.

R Introduction

Installation of R, R reserved words, Variables and Constants, R Operators, R Control Structures, R Programming: for loop, R while loop, R break & next, R repeat loop R Functions: R Programming Function, Function Return Value, R Environment and Scope, R recursive function, R switch function

R Data Structure

R Vectors, R Matrix, R List, R Data Frame R Object and Class: Object and Class, R S3 Class, R S4 Class, R Reference Class, R Inheritance R Graphs and Charts: Bar plot, Histogram, Pie Chart, Box plot, Strip chart