Simple R Intro

RStudio

RStudio

Installing Packages

The language of R

Objects

A storage place for information; stored in the “Environment”

‘Attributes’ describes the structure or information of the object

The language of R

Objects

The language of R

Objects

# y is an 'object' that is assigned the value 3
y = 3
y

[1] 3

# Same operation '=' '<-'
y <- 3

The language of R

Objects

# We can create new objects from objects
y2 = y-2
y2

[1] 1

# We can do math with our objects
# Mind your parentheses (order of operation)
y*2 / y*4

[1] 8

y*2 / (y*4)

[1] 0.5

The language of R

Functions

‘does stuff’; creates or manipulates objects

‘Arguments’ are the types of things a function is asking for; the inputs

The language of R

object = function(argument = input1, argument = input2)

object = function(input1, input2)

this = sign(x = -5)

sign(-5)

[1] -1

sign(5)

[1] 1

The language of R

Functions

# function - 'c' - concatenate
y = c(1,2,3,4,5,6)

is.numeric(y)

[1] TRUE

# The function 'class' has the argument 'x'
is.numeric(x = y)

[1] TRUE

The language of R

Functions

# How to find out the arguments of a function?
?is.numeric

The language of R

Wrapping functions

# Functions are commonly 1) wrapped, 2) have multiple arguments
x = matrix( 
            data = c(1,2,3,4,5,6),
            nrow = 2,
            ncol = 3
            )

x

     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    3    5
[2,]    2    4    6

The language of R

Values

• numeric
• integer
• character
• factor

Objects

• vector
• matrix
• array
• list
• dataframe
• S3, S4, S5, and beyond

Types of Values

Numeric

y = 3
class(y)

[1] "numeric"

Integer

y = integer(3)
class(y)

[1] "integer"

Character

y = "habitat"
class(y)

[1] "character"

Factor

y = factor("habitat")
class(y)

[1] "factor"

Types of Objects

Vector

# An ordered collection indexed 1,2,...n
# Using the function 'c' to concetanate
z1 = c(4,5,6)
z1

[1] 4 5 6

The value 4 is in element/index/position 1 of the vector

The value 6 is in element/index/position 3 of the vector

# the dimension of a vector
length(z1)

[1] 3

# A vector of characters
z2 = c("dog","cat","horse")
z2

[1] "dog"   "cat"   "horse"

z3 = c("dog","1","horse")
z3

[1] "dog"   "1"     "horse"

:::

Types of Objects

Subsetting a vector

z3 = c("dog",
       "1",
       "horse",
       "chicken"
       )
z3[2]

[1] "1"

2:4

[1] 2 3 4

z3[2:4]

[1] "1"       "horse"   "chicken"

z3[c(2,4)]

[1] "1"       "chicken"

z3[-1]

[1] "1"       "horse"   "chicken"

Types of Objects

Vector of factors

z4 = factor(
            c("dog", 
              "dog", 
              "cat",
              "horse"
              )
           )

z4

[1] dog   dog   cat   horse
Levels: cat dog horse

levels(z4)

[1] "cat"   "dog"   "horse"

summary(z4)

  cat   dog horse 
    1     2     1 

Types of Objects

Matrix

x = matrix(
            c(1,2,3,4,5,6),
            nrow = 2, 
            ncol = 3
           )

x

     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    3    5
[2,]    2    4    6

#rows and columns
dim(x)

[1] 2 3

Types of Objects

Subsetting a matrix

# get element of row 1 and column 2
x[1,2]

[1] 3

# get all elements of row 2
x[2,]

[1] 2 4 6

# same as
x[2,1:3]

[1] 2 4 6

Types of Objects

Array

# ARRAY - more than two dimensions
z5 = array(
            c("a","b","c","d","1","2","3","4"), 
            dim = c(2,2,2)
           )

z5

, , 1

     [,1] [,2]
[1,] "a"  "c" 
[2,] "b"  "d" 

, , 2

     [,1] [,2]
[1,] "1"  "3" 
[2,] "2"  "4" 

Types of Objects

List

# LIST - a bucket - will take anything
my.list = list(z1, z2, z3, z4, z5)

#Subset a list
my.list[[1]]

[1] 4 5 6

my.list[[4]]

[1] dog   dog   cat   horse
Levels: cat dog horse

Types of Objects

Data frame

E.g., a row for each observation and a column for each variable (can be different types).

x = data.frame(outcome = c(1,0,1,1),
               exposure = c("yes", "yes", "no", "no"),
               age = c(24, 55, 39, 18)
               )
x

  outcome exposure age
1       1      yes  24
2       0      yes  55
3       1       no  39
4       1       no  18

Types of Objects

Subset data.frame

x$exposure

[1] "yes" "yes" "no"  "no" 

x['exposure']

  exposure
1      yes
2      yes
3       no
4       no

x[,2]

[1] "yes" "yes" "no"  "no" 

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[1] "IntroR.R"