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Unit 2: - (Weightage - 45%) : References

This document outlines the topics that will be covered in Unit 2 of an R language course, including installing and using R and R Studio, data types and structures in R, conditional formatting, looping, creating functions, working with data sets and packages, summarizing and exploring data, and basic graphics. References provided are chapters from a Beginning R textbook and links for downloading R Studio and accessing R packages online. Key concepts that will be learned include importing and exporting data, working with vectors, matrices, factors, data frames and lists, if/else statements, while and for loops, and creating user-defined functions.

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Unit 2: - (Weightage - 45%) : References

This document outlines the topics that will be covered in Unit 2 of an R language course, including installing and using R and R Studio, data types and structures in R, conditional formatting, looping, creating functions, working with data sets and packages, summarizing and exploring data, and basic graphics. References provided are chapters from a Beginning R textbook and links for downloading R Studio and accessing R packages online. Key concepts that will be learned include importing and exporting data, working with vectors, matrices, factors, data frames and lists, if/else statements, while and for loops, and creating user-defined functions.

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Unit 2 :- (Weightage- 45%)

1) Overview of the R language:


Installing R and R Studio : Using R studio, Scripts, Text editors for R, Graphical User
Interfaces (GUIs) for R, Creating and storing R workspaces, installing packages and
libraries, Mathematical operations.
2) Data Types in R – Numeric, Integer, Character, Logical, Complex and missing
3) Data Structures in R
 Vectors – Creation , Arithmetic operations of Vectors, Vector Sub setting, Sorting
and Sequencing functions
 Matrix and Arrays – Creation, Arithmetic Operations of matrix, Sub setting, Use
of Drop Function
 Factors – Converting a vector into factor, assigning levels and labels, ordered
Factor
 Data Frames – Creation of Data Frame, adding new columns, rows and removing
columns, accessing column using the $ sign, importing a data set using the
read.csv function, Aggregate Function
 List – Creating a list, accessing elements from a list, adding a new element and
eliminating an existing element form the list, converting list to vectors.
4) Conditional formatting- if -else, if-else if-else
5) Looping- While Loop and For Loop
6) Creating functions, dictionary
7) Data sets included in R packages, Summarizing and exploring data. Data cleaning and
mining. Using data external files- reading& writing data to external files, Basic exploratory
graphics.

References
Chapter 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Gardener, M.(2018). Beginning R: The statistical programming
language, WILEY

Web Links:
https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ (R studio)
https://cran.r-project.org/ (R Programming)

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