The design of the statistical programming language R sits in a slightly uncomfortable place between the functional programming and object oriented paradigms. The upside is you get a lot of the expressive power of both programming paradigms. A downside of this is: the not always useful variability of the language’... [Read more...]

The main reason why I have usually chosen to use excel to make my plots at work is because I had difficulty feeding the summary stats in R into a plotting function.  One thing I learned this week is how … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I can’t believe I didn’t learn how to do it earlier, but I never knew how to accurately copy tables from excel that had text with spaces in them, and paste into a data frame in R without generating confusion … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I wanted to write contingency tables in HTML with hwrite(). I realized that the method hwrite() does not exist for the table objects. I could use as.data.frame(), but the table produced is non-intuitive. I did a search on R-bloggers and I quickly found the solution to my problem: ... [Read more...]

This post shows how to print a prettier nested pivot table, created using the {reshape} package (similar to what you would get with Microsoft Excel), so you could print it either in the R terminal or as a LaTeX table. This task is done by bridging between the cast_df ... [Read more...]

The followings introductory post is intended for new users of R.  It deals with R data frames: what they are, and how to create, view, and update them. This is a guest article by Dr. Robert I. Kabacoff, the founder of (one of) the first online R tutorials websites: Quick-R.  ... [Read more...]

Yesterday I launched my first question at Stackoverflow and apparently did a lot of things wrong as I managed to get my question closed wihtin hours http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7728462/identify-records-in-data-frame-a-not-contained-in-data-frame-b I had collected 9 different solutions to the problem and made the mistake to put it all within the original ... [Read more...]

Following on from the previous post about creating a football result processing function for data from the football-data.co.uk website we will add code to the function to generate a league table based on the results to date. To create the league table we need to count various things ... [Read more...]

The R software system is primarily command line based so when there are large sets of data it is not easy to browse the data frames. There are various useful functions for working with data frames. For example, after loading data from a text file we might want to view ... [Read more...]

Sometimes I find it useful to merge two data frames like the following ones   X1 X2 X3 X4 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 1  o  o  o  o X X X X 2  o  o  o  o X X X X 3  o  o  o  o X X X X by using zip feeding ... [Read more...]

Today I will treat a problem I encounter every once in a while. Let’s suppose we have several dataframes or vectors of unequel length but with partly matching column names,  just like the following ones: df1 [Read more...]