Introduction
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R Studio
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Having Some "Fun" with R
R Tutorial - For Beginners
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Introduction
What is R?
R is a powerful, free, open-source programming language and
software environment for statistical analysis and data
visualization.
Why use R?
Similar syntax to the S language (a popular statistical
language for research), but free - as such, it is used in
many Statistics courses at U of W.
Basic functionality can be extended via
packages
.
Download R at
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Companies Using R
Facebook
to analyze status updates or to visualize the
"locality of friendship":
blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2010/12/facebooks-social-network-graph.html
Google
to predict economic activity.
Mozilla
to analyze web activity:
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# Any words after a number sign is a comment and
# is not executed in R.
Setting a variable n to the value 10
n = 5
Square roots and Exponentiating
sqrt(n)
# find the square root of ’n’
## [1] 2.236
exp(n)
# find e^n
## [1] 148.4
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Vectors
Create a vector ’x1’ containing the values 1, 2, and 3.
x1 = c(1, 2, 3)
Create a vector of ’n’ zero’s.
x2 = rep(0, n)
Store the values of the vectors x1 and x2 in the vector x3. It
is equivalent to the command x3 = c(1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
x3 = c(x1, x2)
Add the 2nd element of x3 to the 1st element of x3 and
store it as the 1st element of x3
x3[1] = x3[1] + x3[2]
# NOTE: the vector index starts at 1 and not 0.
Display x3
x3
## [1] 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 0
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Vectors (Continued)
Create and display a vector x4 whose elements form an
arithmetic progression
x5 = seq(from = 0.5, to = 4, by = 0.5)
x5
## [1] 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0
Access the first and third elements of x5
x5[c(1, 3)]
## [1] 0.5 1.5
Elementwise addition of x3 and x5
x3 + x5
## [1] 3.5 3.0 4.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0
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Summary Statistics
Create a vector y of 8 simulations of a
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0
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