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Did you forget to specify stringsAsFactors = FALSE? By default, R changescharacter data to factors, so you always have to add this argument if you wantyour data to remain character variables.Did you have another way of specifying missing values? R reads ‘NA’ in atext file as a missing value, but the file may use a different code (for example,‘missing’). R will see that as text and again convert that variable to a factor.You solve this by specifying the argument na.strings in the read.table()function.If you always check the structure of your data immediately after you read itin, you can catch errors much earlier and avoid hours of frustration. Your bestbet is to use str() for information on the types and head() to see if the valuesare what you expected.Having your data in the wrong formatAs we’ve stressed multiple times, every function in R expects your data to bein a specific format. That doesn’t mean simply whether it’s an integer, character, orfactor, but also whether you supply a vector, a matrix, a data frame, or a list. Manyfunctions can deal with multiple formats, but sometimes the result isn’t what youexpect at all.In fact, functions are generic functions that dispatch to a method for theobject you supplied as an argument. (See Chapter 8 for more information ondispatching.)Dropping dimensions when you don’t expect itThis mistake is definitely another classic. R automatically tries to reduce thenumber of dimensions when subsetting a matrix, array, or data frame (see Chapter7). If you want to calculate the row sums of the numeric variables in a data frame— for example, the built-in data frame sleep — you can write a little function likethis:
owsum.df strsplit(‘this is a sentence’,’ ‘)[2][[1]]NULLIn this example, strsplit() returns a list with one element, the vector withthe words from the sentence:> strsplit(‘this is a sentence’,’ ‘)[[1]][1] “this” “is” “a” “sentence”To access this vector, you first have to select the wanted element from the
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R For Dummies ®Published byJohn Wi
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About the AuthorsAndrie de Vries: A
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my choices. Professor Bruce Hardie
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IntroductionWelcome to R For Dummie
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: The prompt symbol, >, is not part
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You want to explore new stuff. You
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Icons Used in This BookAs you read
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Chapter 1Introducing R: The Big Pic
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eferred to as “free as in beer.
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you how to move data and graphics b
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If you have experience in other lan
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variables, get to look at the built
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Below all this information is the R
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that we use it to illustrate the ex
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Starting Your First R SessionIf you
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Using R as a calculator is very int
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Sourcing a ScriptUntil now, you’v
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Finding help on functionsWe discuss
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languages, the backslash character
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Vectorizing your functionsVectorize
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print()R tells you that it needs th
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extensions that much. But using .Rh
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Choosing a clear nameWhen Joris was
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opinions, so the naming of function
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Often, you want to add a bit of ext
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all of them at the beginning of eac
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Part IIGetting Down to Work in RIn
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calculator.Vector operations: Vecto
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decision to use scientific notation
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operations in Chapter 7.Actually, o
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Take a look at the vector baskets.o
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way the value is stored in memory.R
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Creating and assigning named vector
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Similar to the way that R displays
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[1] “The quick brown FOX jumps ov
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The result of grep() is a numeric v
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lexicographically sorted, unique va
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difference between the levels and t
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Chapter 6Going on a Date with RIn T
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Table 6-2 Some Format Codes for Dat
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Formatting Dates and TimesTo format
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project.org/web/packages/lubridate/
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the way. You can try that out yours
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As explained in the “Combining ve
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Part IIICoding in RIn this part . .
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Making the scriptSuppose you want t
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There’s no way you can define in
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Luckily, this problem doesn’t occ
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addPercent
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function tries to identify columns
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time, %in% is in infix operator. An
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order. Do this using the order() fu
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FUN: The function to apply (for exa
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+ y ~ a + b Include columns a as we
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data: A molten data frame.formula:
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Chapter 14Summarizing DataIn This C
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that benefits from being converted
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multiple variables, there’s a lot
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Still, histograms leave much to the
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Again, you get the value for the te
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Many research questions revolve aro
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have to specify which margins you w
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str(InsectSprays)‘data.frame’:
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Checking the model tablesWith the m
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The difference between the means.Th
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The lm() function allows you to spe
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FunctionWhat It Doescoef()Returns a
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The built-in R datasets are documen
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You also can use the function ablin
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It seems odd to use a plot function
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Figure 16-6: Adding main title, x-a
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Your graphic should look like Figur
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When your plot is complete, you nee
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into your R console.Changing Plot O
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xyplot(mpg ~ hp | factor(cyl), data
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Three-dimensional scatterplots: clo
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millions of people. (The documentat
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Printing and Saving a Lattice PlotY
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Chapter 18Looking At ggplot2 Graphi
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aes() function to set up the mappin
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visual elements is the second eleme
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geom_point() Scatterplot stat_ident
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Part VIThe Part of TensIn this part
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first supplied value as a fixed poi
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AppendixInstalling R and RStudioBef
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a number of startup options by adap
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If you click Browse, you can select
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