
		# create a variable a, equal to 5

		# print out a
		
		# check the number of R packages available on CRAN


		# create a variable `a`, equal to 5
		a <- 5

		# print out `a`
		print(a)

		# check the number of R packages available on CRAN
    nrow(available.packages(repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org"))


		test_object("a")
		test_output_contains("a")
		test_function("nrow")
		test_function("available.packages")
		success_msg("Great job!")

Use the assignment operator ( <- ) to create the variable a.