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language: R
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contributors:
- ["e99n09", "http://github.com/e99n09"]
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- ["isomorphismes", "http://twitter.com/isomorphisms"]
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- ["kalinn", "http://github.com/kalinn"]
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- ["mribeirodantas", "http://github.com/mribeirodantas"]
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filename: learnr.r
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R is a statistical computing language. It has lots of libraries for uploading and cleaning data sets, running statistical procedures, and making graphs. You can also run `R` commands within a LaTeX document.
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```r
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# Comments start with number symbols.
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# You can't make multi-line comments,
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# but you can stack multiple comments like so.
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# in Windows you can use CTRL-ENTER to execute a line.
# on Mac it is COMMAND-ENTER
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#############################################################################
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# Stuff you can do without understanding anything about programming
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#############################################################################
# In this section, we show off some of the cool stuff you can do in
# R without understanding anything about programming. Do not worry
# about understanding everything the code does. Just enjoy!
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data() # browse pre-loaded data sets
data(rivers) # get this one: "Lengths of Major North American Rivers"
ls() # notice that "rivers" now appears in the workspace
head(rivers) # peek at the data set
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# 735 320 325 392 524 450
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length(rivers) # how many rivers were measured?
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# 141
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summary(rivers) # what are some summary statistics?
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# Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
# 135.0 310.0 425.0 591.2 680.0 3710.0
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# make a stem-and-leaf plot (a histogram-like data visualization)
stem(rivers)
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# The decimal point is 2 digit(s) to the right of the |
#
# 0 | 4
# 2 | 011223334555566667778888899900001111223333344455555666688888999
# 4 | 111222333445566779001233344567
# 6 | 000112233578012234468
# 8 | 045790018
# 10 | 04507
# 12 | 1471
# 14 | 56
# 16 | 7
# 18 | 9
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# 20 |
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# 22 | 25
# 24 | 3
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# 26 |
# 28 |
# 30 |
# 32 |
# 34 |
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# 36 | 1
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stem(log(rivers)) # Notice that the data are neither normal nor log-normal!
# Take that, Bell curve fundamentalists.
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# The decimal point is 1 digit(s) to the left of the |
#
# 48 | 1
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# 50 |
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# 52 | 15578
# 54 | 44571222466689
# 56 | 023334677000124455789
# 58 | 00122366666999933445777
# 60 | 122445567800133459
# 62 | 112666799035
# 64 | 00011334581257889
# 66 | 003683579
# 68 | 0019156
# 70 | 079357
# 72 | 89
# 74 | 84
# 76 | 56
# 78 | 4
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# 80 |
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# 82 | 2
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# make a histogram:
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hist(rivers, col = "#333333", border = "white", breaks = 25)
hist(log(rivers), col = "#333333", border = "white", breaks = 25)
# play around with these parameters, you'll do more plotting later
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# Here's another neat data set that comes pre-loaded. R has tons of these.
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data(discoveries)
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plot(discoveries, col = "#333333", lwd = 3, xlab = "Year",
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main="Number of important discoveries per year")
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plot(discoveries, col = "#333333", lwd = 3, type = "h", xlab = "Year",
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main="Number of important discoveries per year")
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# Rather than leaving the default ordering (by year),
# we could also sort to see what's typical:
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sort(discoveries)
# [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
# [26] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
# [51] 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
# [76] 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 8 9 10 12
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stem(discoveries, scale = 2)
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#
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# The decimal point is at the |
#
# 0 | 000000000
# 1 | 000000000000
# 2 | 00000000000000000000000000
# 3 | 00000000000000000000
# 4 | 000000000000
# 5 | 0000000
# 6 | 000000
# 7 | 0000
# 8 | 0
# 9 | 0
# 10 | 0
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# 11 |
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# 12 | 0
max(discoveries)
# 12
summary(discoveries)
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# Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
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# 0.0 2.0 3.0 3.1 4.0 12.0
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# Roll a die a few times
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round(runif(7, min = .5, max = 6.5))
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# 1 4 6 1 4 6 4
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# Your numbers will differ from mine unless we set the same random.seed(31337)
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# Draw from a standard Gaussian 9 times
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rnorm(9)
# [1] 0.07528471 1.03499859 1.34809556 -0.82356087 0.61638975 -1.88757271
# [7] -0.59975593 0.57629164 1.08455362
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##################################################
# Data types and basic arithmetic
##################################################
# Now for the programming-oriented part of the tutorial.
# In this section you will meet the important data types of R:
# integers, numerics, characters, logicals, and factors.
# There are others, but these are the bare minimum you need to
# get started.
# INTEGERS
# Long-storage integers are written with L
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5L # 5
class(5L) # "integer"
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# (Try ?class for more information on the class() function.)
# In R, every single value, like 5L, is considered a vector of length 1
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length(5L) # 1
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# You can have an integer vector with length > 1 too:
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c(4L, 5L, 8L, 3L) # 4 5 8 3
length(c(4L, 5L, 8L, 3L)) # 4
class(c(4L, 5L, 8L, 3L)) # "integer"
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# NUMERICS
# A "numeric" is a double-precision floating-point number
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5 # 5
class(5) # "numeric"
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# Again, everything in R is a vector;
# you can make a numeric vector with more than one element
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c(3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1) # 3 3 3 2 2 1
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# You can use scientific notation too
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5e4 # 50000
6.02e23 # Avogadro's number
1.6e-35 # Planck length
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# You can also have infinitely large or small numbers
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class(Inf) # "numeric"
class(-Inf) # "numeric"
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# You might use "Inf", for example, in integrate(dnorm, 3, Inf);
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# this obviates Z-score tables.
# BASIC ARITHMETIC
# You can do arithmetic with numbers
# Doing arithmetic on a mix of integers and numerics gives you another numeric
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10L + 66L # 76 # integer plus integer gives integer
53.2 - 4 # 49.2 # numeric minus numeric gives numeric
2.0 * 2L # 4 # numeric times integer gives numeric
3L / 4 # 0.75 # integer over numeric gives numeric
3 %% 2 # 1 # the remainder of two numerics is another numeric
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# Illegal arithmetic yields you a "not-a-number":
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0 / 0 # NaN
class(NaN) # "numeric"
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# You can do arithmetic on two vectors with length greater than 1,
# so long as the larger vector's length is an integer multiple of the smaller
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c(1, 2, 3) + c(1, 2, 3) # 2 4 6
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# Since a single number is a vector of length one, scalars are applied
# elementwise to vectors
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(4 * c(1, 2, 3) - 2) / 2 # 1 3 5
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# Except for scalars, use caution when performing arithmetic on vectors with
# different lengths. Although it can be done,
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c(1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3) * c(1, 2) # 1 4 3 2 2 6
# Matching lengths is better practice and easier to read most times
c(1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3) * c(1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2) # 1 4 3 2 2 6
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# CHARACTERS
# There's no difference between strings and characters in R
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"Horatio" # "Horatio"
class("Horatio") # "character"
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class("H") # "character"
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# Those were both character vectors of length 1
# Here is a longer one:
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c("alef", "bet", "gimmel", "dalet", "he")
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# => "alef" "bet" "gimmel" "dalet" "he"
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length(c("Call","me","Ishmael")) # 3
# You can do regex operations on character vectors:
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substr("Fortuna multis dat nimis, nulli satis.", 9, 15) # "multis "
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gsub('u', 'ø', "Fortuna multis dat nimis, nulli satis.") # "Fortøna møltis dat nimis, nølli satis."
# R has several built-in character vectors:
letters
# =>
# [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o" "p" "q" "r" "s"
# [20] "t" "u" "v" "w" "x" "y" "z"
month.abb # "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" "Oct" "Nov" "Dec"
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# LOGICALS
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# In R, a "logical" is a boolean
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class(TRUE) # "logical"
class(FALSE) # "logical"
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# Their behavior is normal
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TRUE == TRUE # TRUE
TRUE == FALSE # FALSE
FALSE != FALSE # FALSE
FALSE != TRUE # TRUE
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# Missing data (NA) is logical, too
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class(NA) # "logical"
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# Use | and & for logic operations.
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# OR
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TRUE | FALSE # TRUE
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# AND
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TRUE & FALSE # FALSE
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# Applying | and & to vectors returns elementwise logic operations
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c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE) | c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE) # TRUE TRUE FALSE
c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE) & c(FALSE, TRUE, TRUE) # FALSE FALSE TRUE
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# You can test if x is TRUE
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isTRUE(TRUE) # TRUE
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# Here we get a logical vector with many elements:
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c("Z", "o", "r", "r", "o") == "Zorro" # FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
c("Z", "o", "r", "r", "o") == "Z" # TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
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# FACTORS
# The factor class is for categorical data
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# Factors can be ordered (like grade levels) or unordered (like colors)
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factor(c("blue", "blue", "green", NA, "blue"))
# blue blue green <NA> blue
# Levels: blue green
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# The "levels" are the values the categorical data can take
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# Note that missing data does not enter the levels
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levels(factor(c("green", "green", "blue", NA, "blue"))) # "blue" "green"
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# If a factor vector has length 1, its levels will have length 1, too
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length(factor("green")) # 1
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length(levels(factor("green"))) # 1
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# Factors are commonly seen in data frames, a data structure we will cover later
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data(infert) # "Infertility after Spontaneous and Induced Abortion"
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levels(infert$education) # "0-5yrs" "6-11yrs" "12+ yrs"
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# NULL
# "NULL" is a weird one; use it to "blank out" a vector
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class(NULL) # NULL
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parakeet = c("beak", "feathers", "wings", "eyes")
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parakeet # "beak" "feathers" "wings" "eyes"
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parakeet < - NULL
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parakeet # NULL
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# TYPE COERCION
# Type-coercion is when you force a value to take on a different type
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as.character(c(6, 8)) # "6" "8"
as.logical(c(1,0,1,1)) # TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE
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# If you put elements of different types into a vector, weird coercions happen:
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c(TRUE, 4) # 1 4
c("dog", TRUE, 4) # "dog" "TRUE" "4"
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as.numeric("Bilbo")
# =>
# [1] NA
# Warning message:
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# NAs introduced by coercion
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# Also note: those were just the basic data types
# There are many more data types, such as for dates, time series, etc.
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##################################################
# Variables, loops, if/else
##################################################
# A variable is like a box you store a value in for later use.
# We call this "assigning" the value to the variable.
# Having variables lets us write loops, functions, and if/else statements
# VARIABLES
# Lots of way to assign stuff:
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x = 5 # this is possible
y < - " 1 " # this is preferred traditionally
TRUE -> z # this works but is weird
# Refer to the Internet for the behaviors and preferences about them.
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# LOOPS
# We've got for loops
for (i in 1:4) {
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print(i)
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}
# We've got while loops
a < - 10
while (a > 4) {
cat(a, "...", sep = "")
a < - a - 1
}
# Keep in mind that for and while loops run slowly in R
# Operations on entire vectors (i.e. a whole row, a whole column)
# or apply()-type functions (we'll discuss later) are preferred
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# IF/ELSE
# Again, pretty standard
if (4 > 3) {
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print("4 is greater than 3")
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} else {
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print("4 is not greater than 3")
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}
# =>
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# [1] "4 is greater than 3"
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# FUNCTIONS
# Defined like so:
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jiggle < - function ( x ) {
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x = x + rnorm(1, sd=.1) # add in a bit of (controlled) noise
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return(x)
}
# Called like any other R function:
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jiggle(5) # 5±ε. After set.seed(2716057), jiggle(5)==5.005043
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###########################################################################
# Data structures: Vectors, matrices, data frames, and arrays
###########################################################################
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# ONE-DIMENSIONAL
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# Let's start from the very beginning, and with something you already know: vectors.
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vec < - c ( 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 )
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vec # 8 9 10 11
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# We ask for specific elements by subsetting with square brackets
# (Note that R starts counting from 1)
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vec[1] # 8
letters[18] # "r"
LETTERS[13] # "M"
month.name[9] # "September"
c(6, 8, 7, 5, 3, 0, 9)[3] # 7
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# We can also search for the indices of specific components,
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which(vec %% 2 == 0) # 1 3
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# grab just the first or last few entries in the vector,
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head(vec, 1) # 8
tail(vec, 2) # 10 11
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# or figure out if a certain value is in the vector
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any(vec == 10) # TRUE
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# If an index "goes over" you'll get NA:
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vec[6] # NA
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# You can find the length of your vector with length()
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length(vec) # 4
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# You can perform operations on entire vectors or subsets of vectors
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vec * 4 # 32 36 40 44
vec[2:3] * 5 # 45 50
any(vec[2:3] == 8) # FALSE
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# and R has many built-in functions to summarize vectors
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mean(vec) # 9.5
var(vec) # 1.666667
sd(vec) # 1.290994
max(vec) # 11
min(vec) # 8
sum(vec) # 38
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# Some more nice built-ins:
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5:15 # 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
seq(from = 0, to = 31337, by = 1337)
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# =>
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# [1] 0 1337 2674 4011 5348 6685 8022 9359 10696 12033 13370 14707
# [13] 16044 17381 18718 20055 21392 22729 24066 25403 26740 28077 29414 30751
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# TWO-DIMENSIONAL (ALL ONE CLASS)
# You can make a matrix out of entries all of the same type like so:
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mat < - matrix ( nrow = 3, ncol = 2, c ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) )
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mat
# =>
# [,1] [,2]
# [1,] 1 4
# [2,] 2 5
# [3,] 3 6
# Unlike a vector, the class of a matrix is "matrix", no matter what's in it
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class(mat) # "matrix" "array"
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# Ask for the first row
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mat[1, ] # 1 4
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# Perform operation on the first column
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3 * mat[, 1] # 3 6 9
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# Ask for a specific cell
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mat[3, 2] # 6
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# Transpose the whole matrix
t(mat)
# =>
# [,1] [,2] [,3]
# [1,] 1 2 3
# [2,] 4 5 6
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# Matrix multiplication
mat %*% t(mat)
# =>
# [,1] [,2] [,3]
# [1,] 17 22 27
# [2,] 22 29 36
# [3,] 27 36 45
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# cbind() sticks vectors together column-wise to make a matrix
mat2 < - cbind ( 1:4 , c ( " dog " , " cat " , " bird " , " dog " ) )
mat2
# =>
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# [,1] [,2]
# [1,] "1" "dog"
# [2,] "2" "cat"
# [3,] "3" "bird"
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# [4,] "4" "dog"
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class(mat2) # matrix
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# Again, note what happened!
# Because matrices must contain entries all of the same class,
# everything got converted to the character class
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c(class(mat2[, 1]), class(mat2[, 2]))
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# rbind() sticks vectors together row-wise to make a matrix
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mat3 < - rbind ( c ( 1 , 2 , 4 , 5 ) , c ( 6 , 7 , 0 , 4 ) )
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mat3
# =>
# [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
# [1,] 1 2 4 5
# [2,] 6 7 0 4
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# Ah, everything of the same class. No coercions. Much better.
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# TWO-DIMENSIONAL (DIFFERENT CLASSES)
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# For columns of different types, use a data frame
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# This data structure is so useful for statistical programming,
# a version of it was added to Python in the package "pandas".
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students < - data . frame ( c ( " Cedric " , " Fred " , " George " , " Cho " , " Draco " , " Ginny " ) ,
c( 3, 2, 2, 1, 0, -1),
c( "H", "G", "G", "R", "S", "G"))
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names(students) < - c ( " name " , " year " , " house " ) # name the columns
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class(students) # "data.frame"
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students
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# =>
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# name year house
# 1 Cedric 3 H
# 2 Fred 2 G
# 3 George 2 G
# 4 Cho 1 R
# 5 Draco 0 S
# 6 Ginny -1 G
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class(students$year) # "numeric"
class(students[,3]) # "factor"
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# find the dimensions
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nrow(students) # 6
ncol(students) # 3
dim(students) # 6 3
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# The data.frame() function used to convert character vectors to factor
# vectors by default; This has changed in R 4.0.0. If your R version is
# older, turn this off by setting stringsAsFactors = FALSE when you
# create the data.frame
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?data.frame
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# There are many twisty ways to subset data frames, all subtly unalike
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students$year # 3 2 2 1 0 -1
students[, 2] # 3 2 2 1 0 -1
students[, "year"] # 3 2 2 1 0 -1
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# An augmented version of the data.frame structure is the data.table
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# If you're working with huge or panel data, or need to merge a few data
# sets, data.table can be a good choice. Here's a whirlwind tour:
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install.packages("data.table") # download the package from CRAN
require(data.table) # load it
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students < - as . data . table ( students )
students # note the slightly different print-out
# =>
# name year house
# 1: Cedric 3 H
# 2: Fred 2 G
# 3: George 2 G
# 4: Cho 1 R
# 5: Draco 0 S
# 6: Ginny -1 G
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students[name == "Ginny"] # get rows with name == "Ginny"
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# =>
# name year house
# 1: Ginny -1 G
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students[year == 2] # get rows with year == 2
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# =>
# name year house
# 1: Fred 2 G
# 2: George 2 G
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# data.table makes merging two data sets easy
# let's make another data.table to merge with students
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founders < - data . table ( house = c("G" , " H " , " R " , " S " ) ,
founder = c("Godric", "Helga", "Rowena", "Salazar"))
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founders
# =>
# house founder
# 1: G Godric
# 2: H Helga
# 3: R Rowena
# 4: S Salazar
setkey(students, house)
setkey(founders, house)
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students < - founders [ students ] # merge the two data sets by matching " house "
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setnames(students, c("house", "houseFounderName", "studentName", "year"))
students[, order(c("name", "year", "house", "houseFounderName")), with = F]
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# =>
# studentName year house houseFounderName
# 1: Fred 2 G Godric
# 2: George 2 G Godric
# 3: Ginny -1 G Godric
# 4: Cedric 3 H Helga
# 5: Cho 1 R Rowena
# 6: Draco 0 S Salazar
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# data.table makes summary tables easy
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students[, sum(year), by = house]
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# =>
# house V1
# 1: G 3
# 2: H 3
# 3: R 1
# 4: S 0
# To drop a column from a data.frame or data.table,
# assign it the NULL value
students$houseFounderName < - NULL
students
# =>
# studentName year house
# 1: Fred 2 G
# 2: George 2 G
# 3: Ginny -1 G
# 4: Cedric 3 H
# 5: Cho 1 R
# 6: Draco 0 S
# Drop a row by subsetting
# Using data.table:
students[studentName != "Draco"]
# =>
# house studentName year
# 1: G Fred 2
# 2: G George 2
# 3: G Ginny -1
# 4: H Cedric 3
# 5: R Cho 1
# Using data.frame:
students < - as . data . frame ( students )
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students[students$house != "G", ]
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# =>
# house houseFounderName studentName year
# 4 H Helga Cedric 3
# 5 R Rowena Cho 1
# 6 S Salazar Draco 0
# MULTI-DIMENSIONAL (ALL ELEMENTS OF ONE TYPE)
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# Arrays creates n-dimensional tables
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# All elements must be of the same type
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# You can make a two-dimensional table (sort of like a matrix)
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array(c(c(1, 2, 4, 5), c(8, 9, 3, 6)), dim = c(2, 4))
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# =>
# [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
# [1,] 1 4 8 3
# [2,] 2 5 9 6
# You can use array to make three-dimensional matrices too
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array(c(c(c(2, 300, 4), c(8, 9, 0)), c(c(5, 60, 0), c(66, 7, 847))), dim = c(3, 2, 2))
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# =>
# , , 1
#
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# [,1] [,2]
# [1,] 2 8
# [2,] 300 9
# [3,] 4 0
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#
# , , 2
#
# [,1] [,2]
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# [1,] 5 66
# [2,] 60 7
# [3,] 0 847
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# LISTS (MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, POSSIBLY RAGGED, OF DIFFERENT TYPES)
# Finally, R has lists (of vectors)
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list1 < - list ( time = 1:40)
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list1$price = c(rnorm(40, .5*list1$time, 4)) # random
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list1
# You can get items in the list like so
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list1$time # one way
list1[["time"]] # another way
list1[[1]] # yet another way
# =>
# [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
# [34] 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
# You can subset list items like any other vector
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list1$price[4]
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# Lists are not the most efficient data structure to work with in R;
# unless you have a very good reason, you should stick to data.frames
# Lists are often returned by functions that perform linear regressions
##################################################
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# The apply() family of functions
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##################################################
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# Remember mat?
mat
# =>
# [,1] [,2]
# [1,] 1 4
# [2,] 2 5
# [3,] 3 6
# Use apply(X, MARGIN, FUN) to apply function FUN to a matrix X
# over rows (MAR = 1) or columns (MAR = 2)
# That is, R does FUN to each row (or column) of X, much faster than a
# for or while loop would do
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apply(mat, MAR = 2, jiggle)
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# =>
# [,1] [,2]
# [1,] 3 15
# [2,] 7 19
# [3,] 11 23
# Other functions: ?lapply, ?sapply
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# Don't feel too intimidated; everyone agrees they are rather confusing
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# The plyr package aims to replace (and improve upon!) the *apply() family.
install.packages("plyr")
require(plyr)
?plyr
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#########################
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# Loading data
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#########################
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# "pets.csv" is a file on the internet
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# (but it could just as easily be a file on your own computer)
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require(RCurl)
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pets < - read . csv ( textConnection ( getURL ( " https: / / learnxinyminutes . com / docs / pets . csv " ) ) )
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pets
head(pets, 2) # first two rows
tail(pets, 1) # last row
# To save a data frame or matrix as a .csv file
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write.csv(pets, "pets2.csv") # to make a new .csv file
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# set working directory with setwd(), look it up with getwd()
# Try ?read.csv and ?write.csv for more information
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#########################
# Statistical Analysis
#########################
# Linear regression!
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linearModel < - lm ( price ~ time , data = list1)
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linearModel # outputs result of regression
# =>
# Call:
# lm(formula = price ~ time, data = list1)
#
# Coefficients:
# (Intercept) time
# 0.1453 0.4943
summary(linearModel) # more verbose output from the regression
# =>
# Call:
# lm(formula = price ~ time, data = list1)
#
# Residuals:
# Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
# -8.3134 -3.0131 -0.3606 2.8016 10.3992
#
# Coefficients:
# Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
# (Intercept) 0.14527 1.50084 0.097 0.923
# time 0.49435 0.06379 7.749 2.44e-09 ***
# ---
# Signif. codes: 0 ‘ ***’ 0.001 ‘ **’ 0.01 ‘ *’ 0.05 ‘ .’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#
# Residual standard error: 4.657 on 38 degrees of freedom
# Multiple R-squared: 0.6124, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6022
# F-statistic: 60.05 on 1 and 38 DF, p-value: 2.44e-09
coef(linearModel) # extract estimated parameters
# =>
# (Intercept) time
# 0.1452662 0.4943490
summary(linearModel)$coefficients # another way to extract results
# =>
# Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
# (Intercept) 0.1452662 1.50084246 0.09678975 9.234021e-01
# time 0.4943490 0.06379348 7.74920901 2.440008e-09
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summary(linearModel)$coefficients[, 4] # the p-values
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# =>
# (Intercept) time
# 9.234021e-01 2.440008e-09
# GENERAL LINEAR MODELS
# Logistic regression
set.seed(1)
list1$success = rbinom(length(list1$time), 1, .5) # random binary
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glModel < - glm ( success ~ time , data = list1, family = binomial(link="logit"))
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glModel # outputs result of logistic regression
# =>
# Call: glm(formula = success ~ time,
# family = binomial(link = "logit"), data = list1)
#
# Coefficients:
# (Intercept) time
# 0.17018 -0.01321
#
# Degrees of Freedom: 39 Total (i.e. Null); 38 Residual
# Null Deviance: 55.35
# Residual Deviance: 55.12 AIC: 59.12
summary(glModel) # more verbose output from the regression
# =>
# Call:
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# glm(
# formula = success ~ time,
# family = binomial(link = "logit"),
# data = list1)
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# Deviance Residuals:
# Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
# -1.245 -1.118 -1.035 1.202 1.327
#
# Coefficients:
# Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
# (Intercept) 0.17018 0.64621 0.263 0.792
# time -0.01321 0.02757 -0.479 0.632
#
# (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
#
# Null deviance: 55.352 on 39 degrees of freedom
# Residual deviance: 55.121 on 38 degrees of freedom
# AIC: 59.121
#
# Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 3
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#########################
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# Plots
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#########################
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# BUILT-IN PLOTTING FUNCTIONS
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# Scatterplots!
plot(list1$time, list1$price, main = "fake data")
# Plot regression line on existing plot
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abline(linearModel, col = "red")
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# Get a variety of nice diagnostics
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plot(linearModel)
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# Histograms!
hist(rpois(n = 10000, lambda = 5), col = "thistle")
# Barplots!
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barplot(c(1, 4, 5, 1, 2), names.arg = c("red", "blue", "purple", "green", "yellow"))
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# GGPLOT2
# But these are not even the prettiest of R's plots
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# Try the ggplot2 package for more and better graphics
install.packages("ggplot2")
require(ggplot2)
?ggplot2
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pp < - ggplot ( students , aes ( x = house))
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pp + geom_bar()
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ll < - as . data . table ( list1 )
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pp < - ggplot ( ll , aes ( x = time, price ) )
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pp + geom_point()
# ggplot2 has excellent documentation (available http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/)
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```
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## How do I get R?
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* Get R and the R GUI from [http://www.r-project.org/ ](http://www.r-project.org/ )
* [RStudio ](http://www.rstudio.com/ide/ ) is another GUI