Vectors, lists, arrays, matrices and data frames -- a look at five of the most fundamental data structures built into R. Among my colleagues, R is one of the fastest-growing programming languages.
See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package. R has a number of quick, elegant ways to join data ...
Before you start analyzing, you might want to take a look at your data object’s structure and a few row entries. If it’s a 2-dimensional table of data stored in an R data frame object with rows and ...
In R, we can use data frames to represent these kinds of tables. Data frames are really just lists (see Module 8) in which each element is a vector of the same length. Each vector represents a column, ...
R syntax can seem a bit quirky, especially if your frame of reference is, well, pretty much any other programming language. Here are some unusual traits of the language you may find useful to ...
Before you can analyze and visualize data, you have to get that data into R. There are various ways to do this, depending on how your data is formatted and where it’s located. Usually, the function ...
This repository demonstrates a common, yet subtle, error in R programming related to accessing columns in data frames that do not exist. The issue is that attempting ...
Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio. A central feature of Positron is the Variable & Data Frame Explorer. It ...