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Feb 3, 2017 "US Presidents" (Due 2/10/2017)
- Download : 1st column is the order, 2nd column is the name, the 3rd column is the year of inauguration; tab-separated
- Your job is to create an R, Perl, or Python script called “us-presidents”, which will
- Read the table
- Store the original/correct order
- Shuffle/permute the rows and record the new order
- Count the number of matching orders
- Repeat Steps 3-4 for a 1000 times
- Plot histogram or barplot to show distribution of matching counts
- Hint: For R, use the sample() function. For Perl, use the rand() function.