The if statement

Before diving into some exercises on the if statement, have another look at its syntax:

if (condition) {
  expr
}

Remember your vectors with social profile views? Let's look at it from another angle. The medium variable gives information about the social website; the num_views variable denotes the actual number of views that particular medium had on the last day of your recordings. Both variables have been pre-defined for you.

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Intermediate R

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Exercise instructions

Examine the if statement that prints out "Showing LinkedIn information" if the medium variable equals "LinkedIn".
Code an if statement that prints "You are popular!" to the console if the num_views variable exceeds 15.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Variables related to your last day of recordings
medium <- "LinkedIn"
num_views <- 14

# Examine the if statement for medium
if (medium == "LinkedIn") {
  print("Showing LinkedIn information")
}

# Write the if statement for num_views

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