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Introduction to R and RStudio IDE
Wan Nor Arifin
Unit of Biostatistics and Research Methodology, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Email: [email protected]
February 13, 2019
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1 Why use R?
2 R and RStudio
3 R script
4 Function and Object
5 R packages
6 Working directory
7 Help
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R
R is a free software environment for statisticalcomputing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a widevariety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.
Source: https://www.r-project.org/
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R outpaces other statistics software
Figure 1: R popularity
Source: http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/Wan Nor Arifin (USM) Introduction to R and RStudio IDE February 13, 2019 5 / 27
R is getting more popular among academician
Figure 2: Impressive growth of R
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Availability of R packages
Figure 3: CRAN
Source: https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/index.html, as of 11/2/2019.Wan Nor Arifin (USM) Introduction to R and RStudio IDE February 13, 2019 7 / 27
R InstallationR @ https://cran.r-project.org/
Figure 4: R Project
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RStudio InstallationRStudio @ http://www.rstudio.com/
Figure 5: RStudio
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R to PDF Installation
Windows & MacOS – MikTeX @ https://miktex.org/downloadLinux – texlive.
Important for R-markdown session later.
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R Interface
Figure 7: Plain R
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RStudio Interface
Figure 8: RStudio
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Script panel
File > New file > R script
type all commands/functions herecomments, start with “#”run all commands by Ctrl+Enter
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Function and Object
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Function
R function(), think of MS Excel functionstructure
function(argument1 = value, argument2 = value)
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Object
name assigned on left side of “<-” / “=”variable, data (data frame, matrix, list)
x <- 1y = 2z = x + yz # type object name, you'll get the value
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Install packages a.k.a libraries
Graphically
Packages > Install
Command
e.g. psych, car
install.packages("psych")install.packages("car")
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Load libraries
e.g. load psych and car,
library(psych)library(car)
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Set working directory
1 Browse to target directory: Files Tab > . . . > Go To Folder2 Files Tab > More > Set As Working Directory
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Help
If you know the name of packages/functions,
?psych?library
Search by keywords,
??mean??survey
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References
Fox, J., Weisberg, S., & Price, B. (2018). Car: Companion to appliedregression. Retrieved from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=car
R Core Team. (2018). R: A language and environment for statisticalcomputing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.Retrieved from https://www.R-project.org/
Revelle, W. (2018). Psych: Procedures for psychological, psychometric, andpersonality research. Retrieved fromhttps://CRAN.R-project.org/package=psych
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