1.2 — Meet R — R Practice

Getting Set Up

Before we begin, start a new file with File $\rightarrow$ New File $\rightarrow$ R Script. As you work through this sheet in the console in R, also add (copy/paste) your commands that work into this new file. At the end, save it, and run to execute all of your commands at once.

Creating Objects

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Work on the following parts:

a. Create a vector called me with two objects, your first name, and your last name.
1. Call the vector to inspect it.
1. Confirm it is a character class vector.

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Use R’s help functions to determine what the paste() function does. Then paste together your first name and last name.

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Create a vector called my_vector with all the even integers from 2 to 10.

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Find the mean of my_vector with mean().

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Take all the integers from 18 to 763,Hint: use the : operator to create a sequence from a starting number to an ending number

then get the mean.

Playing with Data

For the following questions, we will use the diamonds dataset, included as part of ggplot2.

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Install ggplot2.

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Load ggplot2 with the library() command.

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Get the structure of the diamonds data frame. What are the different variables and what kind of data does each contain?

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Get summary statistics separately for carat, depth, table, and price.

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color, cut, and clarity are categorical variables (factors). Use the table() command to generate frequency tables for each.

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Now rerun the summary() command on the entire data frame.

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Now look only at (subset) the first 4 diamonds in the dataset.

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Now look only at (subset) the third and seventh diamond in the dataset.

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Now look only at (subset) the second column of the dataset.

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Do this again, but look using the $ to pull up the second column by name.

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Now look only at diamonds that have a carat greater than or equal to 1.

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Now look only at diamonds that have a VVS1 clarity.

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Now look only at dimaonds that have a color of E, F, I, and J.

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Now look only at diamonds that have a carat greater than or equal to 1 and a VVS1 clarity.

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Get the average price of diamonds in question 18.Hints: use your subset command as an argument to the mean function. You will not need a comma here because you are looking for a single row.

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What is the highest price for a diamond with a 1.0 carat, D color, and VVS1 clarity?

Execute your R Script

Save the R Script you created at the beginning and (hopefully) have been pasting all of your valid commands to. This creates a .R file wherever you choose to save it to. Now looking at the file in the upper left pane of R Studio look for the button in the upper right corner that says Run. Sit back and watch R redo everything you’ve carefully worked on, all at once.