Introduction to R - History and fundamentals of R, Installation and use of R / R Studio / R Shiny,

Installing R packages, R – Nuts and Bolts -Getting Data In and Out - Control Structures and Functions-
Loop Functions-Data Manipulation- String Operations- Matrix Operations.R-Charts
 BASICS OF R
History of R

 R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical

computing andgraphics that is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical
Computing.
 R is an implementation of the S programming language combined
with lexicalscoping semantics inspired by Scheme.
 S was created by John Chambers in 1976, while at Bell Labs.
 There are some important differences, but much of the code written for S runs
unaltered.[15]
 R was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman[16] at the University of
Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently developed by the R Development
Core Team, of which Chambersis a member.
 R is named partly after the first names of the first two R authors and partly as a
play on the name of S.
 The project was conceived in 1992, with an initial version released in 1995 and
a stable beta version in 2000.

Installation of R

1. Download the R installer from https://cran.r-project.org/

 Fig 1.1:Installation of R

2. Run the installer. Default settings are fine. If you do not have admin rights on your
laptop, thenask you local IT support. In that case, it is important that you also ask them
to give you full permissions to the R directories. Without this, you will not be able to
install additional packages later.

Installation of R
Studio

1. Download RStudio: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

 Fig 1.2:Installation of R studio

2. Once the installation of R has completed successfully, run the RStudio installer.
3. If you do not have administrative rights on your laptop, step 2 may fail.
Ask your ITSupport or download a pre-built zip archive of RStudio which
doesn’t need installing.
4. The link for this is towards the bottom of the download page, highlighted in Image
5. Download the appropriate archive for your system (Windows/Linux only –
the Macversion can be installed into your personal “Applications” folder
without admin rights).
6. Double clicking on the zip archive should automatically unpack it on most
Windowsmachines.

Installing R packages

There are three options to install packages.

Option 1:
Click on the tab ‘ Packages’ then ‘Install’ as shown in figure 1.3. Click
on Install toinstall R packages.
 Fig 1.3:Install Packages

Option 2:
Tools -> Install packages. As shown in Fig 1.4.

Fig 1.4:Installation of Packages

 Option 3:
Use the following command to install packages from R console.
Install.packages(“package name”)

Fig 1.5:Installation of packages

Note: Check that the packages are installed by typing ‘library(<packagename>)’

Nuts and Bolts of R

 R is the most comprehensive statistical analysis package available.It incorporates

all of the standard statistical tests, models, and analyses, as well as providing a
comprehensive language for managing and manipulating data.

o R is a programming language and environment developed for statistical

analysis by practising statisticians and researchers. It reflects well on a
very competent community of computational statisticians.

o The graphical capabilities of R are outstanding, providing a fully

programmable graphics language that surpasses most other statistical and
 graphical packages. ˆ

 R is free and open source software, allowing anyone to use and, importantly, to
modify it. R is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with copyright
held by The R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
 R has no license restrictions (other than ensuring our freedom to use it at our own
discretion), and so we can run it anywhere and at any time.

 Anyone can provide new packages, and the wealth of quality packages available
for R is a testament to this approach to software development and sharing.

 R has over 4800 packages available from multiple repositories specializing in

topics like econometrics, data mining, spatial analysis, and bio-informatics.

 R is cross-platform. R runs on many operating systems and different hardware. It

is popularlyused on GNU/Linux, Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows, running on
both 32 and 64 bit processors. ˆ

 R plays well with many other tools, importing data, for example, from CSV files,
SAS, and SPSS, or directly from Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Oracle,
MySQL, and SQLite.

 It can also produce graphics output in PDF, JPG, PNG, and SVG formats, and
table output for LATEX and HTML.

 R has active user groups .

Data In and Out

There are a few principal functions reading data into R.

 read.table(), read.csv(): for reading tabular data

 readLines( ) : for reading lines of a text file

 source () : for reading in R code files (inverse of

dump)
 dget () : for reading in R code files (inverse of
dput)
 load () : for reading in saved workspaces

 unserialize () : for reading single R objects in binary form

 There are analogous functions for writing data to files

 write.table() : for writing tabular data to text files (i.e. CSV) or connections

 writeLines() : for writing character data line-by-line to a file or connection

 dump() : for dumping a textual representation of multiple R objects

 dput() : for outputting a textual representation of an R object

 save() : for saving an arbitrary number of R objects in binary format

(possiblycompressed) to a file.

 Serialize() :for converting an R object into a binary format for outputting to a

connection (orfile).

Control Structures in R

Control Structures can be divided into three categories.

1. Conditional

statements.2.Looping

Statements 3.Jump

Statements

Conditional Statements:

Conditional control structures require the programmer to specify one or more

conditions to be evaluated or tested by the program, along with a statement or
statements to be executed if the condition is determined to be true, and
optionally, other statements to be executed if the condition is determined to be false.

Example:If,If-Else,If-ElseIf Ladder,switch

If:

Description: An if statement consists of a Boolean expression followed by oneor

more statements.

Syntax: If(condition)

{
 Statement

Example:Check for Positive Number

Output :

If-Else

Description: An if…else statement contains the same elements as an ifstatement and

then some extra:

 The keyword else, placed after the first code block

 Second block of code, contained within braces, that has to be carried out ifand only if the
result of the condition in the if() statement is FALSE

Syntax:if(condition)

Statement1

}else{

Statement 2

}
Example:Check for Odd or Even Number

Output:

If-Else if Ladder

If-Else statements can be chained using If-Else if Ladder

Syntax:if(condition)

Statement1

}else if{

Statement 2

}else{

Statement 3

Example: Greatest of three numbers

Output:

Switch:

A switch statement allows a variable to be tested for equality against a list of values.
Each value is called a case, and the variable being switched on is checked for each case.

Syntax: switch(Expression, "Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3" ................................"Option

N")

Example:Print Department names using Switch

 Output:

Looping Statements in R

There may be a situation when you need to execute a block of code several number of
times. A loop statement allows us to execute a statement or group ofstatements multiple
times.

Example:for,while,Repeat

For:

Description: A For loop is a repetition control structure that allows you to efficiently
write a loop that needs to execute a specific number of times.

Syntax: for(value in vector)

Statements

Example: Printing elements of vector

Output:

While:

Description: The While loop executes the same code again and again until astop
condition is met.

Syntax:while(condition){

Statement

Example: Sum of Series

Output:
Repeat:

Description:The Repeat loop executes the same code again and again until astop
condition is met.

Syntax:

repeat

Commands

If(condition)

Break

Example:Printing even numbers till 10

Output:

Jump Statements:
 Description: Loop control statements change execution from its normalsequence
Example: break, next

Break:

Terminates the loop statement and transfers execution to the statement immediately
following the loop.

Syntax: break

Example :print numbers till 5

Output:

Next:

Description: The next statement in R programming language is useful when we want

to skip the current iteration of a loop without terminating it. On encountering next, the
R parser skips further evaluation and starts next iteration of the loop.

Syntax:

next

Example: Print numbers from 1 to 10 except 5

Output:

Functions in R
A function is a set of statements organized together to perform a specific task.R has a
large number of in-built functions and the user can create their own functions.

Syntax:

An R function is created by using the keyword function. The basic syntax of an R

function definition is as follows.

Function name=function(ar1,ar2,……)

Function body

}
Function Components:

The different parts of a function are −

Function Name − This is the actual name of the function. It is stored in R

environment as an object with this name.

Arguments − An argument is a placeholder. When a function is invoked, you

pass a value to the argument. Arguments are optional; that is, a function may
contain no arguments. Also arguments can have default values.

Function Body − The function body contains a collection of statements that

defines what the function does.

Return Value − The return value of a function is the last expression in the
function body to be evaluated.

Built-in Functions

R has many in-built functions which can be directly called in the program
without defining them first.

Eg: sum.seq,abs,round .

Example:

Output:
User Defined Function:
We can create user-defined functions in R. They are specific to what a user wants and
once created they can be used like the built-in functions. Belowis an example of how
a function is created and used.

Function without Arguments:

Here the function does not receive any arguments.

Example:

Output:
Function with Arguments:

The arguments to a function call can be supplied in the same sequence as defined in
the function or they can be supplied in a different sequence but assigned to the names
of the arguments.

Example:

Output:

Function with Default Argument

We can define the value of the arguments in the function definition and call the
function without supplying any argument to get the default result. But we can also call
such functions by supplying new values of the argument and get non default result.
 Example:

Output:

LOOPING FUNCTIONS IN R

The for, while loops can often be replaced by looping functions:

lapply:

Definition:Loop over a list and evaluate a function on each elementSyntax

: lapply(X, FUN, ...)
X

=Li
st FUN=A

Function

…. =other arguments

Example:
sapply:

Definition : same as lapply but try to simplify the result .

Syntax : lapply(X, FUN, ...)
X

=Li
st FUN=A
Function

…. =other arguments

Example:

apply:

Definition: apply a function over the margins of an array

Syntax: apply(X, MARGIN, FUN, ...)

X =An Array

MARGIN =Integer vector indicating which margins should be

“retained”.
 FUN =Function to be applied
... = other arguments to be passed to FUN
Example: Row wise sum in a given matrix using apply()

mapply:

Definition: Multivariate version of lapply

Syntax: mapply (FUN, ..., MoreArgs = NULL, SIMPLIFY = TRUE, USE.NAMES

= TRUE)

FUN : the function to be applied

.. : arguments to apply over

MoreArgs : a list of other arguments to

SIMPLIFY : logical; whether the result should be simplified to a

vector or matrix.

Example:
Matrices in R
Matrices are the R objects in which the elements are arranged in a two-dimensional
rectangular layout. We use matrices containing numeric elements to be used in
mathematical calculations.

Syntax:

The basic syntax for creating a matrix in R is −

matrix(data, nrow, ncol, byrow, dimnames)

 data is the input vector which becomes the data elements of the matrix.

 nrow is the number of rows to be created.

 ncol is the number of columns to be created.

 byrow is a logical clue. If TRUE then the input vector elements are
arranged by row.

 dimname is the names assigned to the rows and columns.

Matrix Creation:

(i) Arrange elements sequentially by

row.Example:
(ii) Arrange elements sequentially by coloumn.

Accessing Elements of Matrix:

Elements of a matrix can be accessed by using the column and row indexof the element
Example:

Matrix Operations:

Various mathematical operations are performed on the matrices using the Roperators.
The result of the operation is also a matrix.The dimensions (number of rows and
columns) should be same for the matrices involved in the operation.
 Matrix Addition:

Matrix Subtraction
Matrix Multiplication(Elementwise)

Matrix Multiplication(Real)
 Matrix Division:

String Operations in R
String:

Any value written within a pair of single quote or double quotes in R istreated as a string.
Example:S=”Hello”
S1=’hai’

String Manipulation:
Concatenating Strings - paste() function:
Many strings in R are combined using the paste() function. It can takeany number of
arguments to be combined together.
Syntax:

paste(..., sep = " ", collapse = NULL)

... represents any number of arguments to be combined.

sep represents any separator between the arguments. It is optional.

collapse is used to eliminate the space in between two strings. Butnot the space
 within two words of one string.

Example

Counting number of characters in a string - nchar() function

This function counts the number of characters including spaces in a string.

Syntax:

The basic syntax for nchar() function is −

nchar(x)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

 x is the vector input.

Example:
 Changing the case - toupper() & tolower() functions

These functions change the case of characters of a string.

Syntax

The basic syntax for toupper() & tolower() function is −

toupper(x)
tolower(x)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

 x is the vector input.

Example:

Extracting parts of a string - substring() function

This function extracts parts of a String.

Syntax

The basic syntax for substring() function is −

substring(x,first,last)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

 x is the character vector input.

 first is the position of the first character to be extracted.

  last is the position of the last character to be extracted.

Replacement Functions:sub() and gsub()

These are replacement functions, which replaces the occurrence of asubstring with other
substring.

 sub() Function in R replaces the first instance of a substring

 gsub() function in R replaces all the instances of a substring

Syntax for sub() and gsub() function in R:

1. sub(old, new, string)

2. gsub(old, new, string)

Example:

Pattern Matching Function:Grep() functionSyntax:

grep(value = FALSE) returns an integer vector of the indices of the elements of x that
yielded a match .

grep(value = TRUE) returns a character vector containing the selectedelements of x.

R Charts and Graphs
R Programming language has numerous libraries to create charts andgraphs.

Pie Chart

A pie-chart is a representation of values as slices of a circle with different colors. The slices are labeled and
the numbers corresponding to each slice is also represented in the chart.

In R the pie chart is created using the pie() function which takes positive numbers as a vector input. The
additional parameters are used to control labels, color, title etc.

syntax
The basic syntax for creating a pie-chart using the R is −

pie(x, labels, radius, main, col, clockwise)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

 x is a vector containing the numeric values used in the pie chart.

 labels is used to give description to the slices.

 radius indicates the radius of the circle of the pie chart.(value between
−1 and +1).

 main indicates the title of the chart.

 col indicates the color palette.

 clockwise is a logical value indicating if the slices are drawn clockwise oranti
clockwise.

Example:
 Output:

Slice Percentages andChartLegend

We can add slice percentage and a chart legend by creating additional chartvariables.
Example:
 Output:

3DPie Chart
A pie chart with 3 dimensions can be drawn using additional packages. Thepackage plotrix has a function
called pie3D() that is used for this.

Example:

Output:
BAR CHART
A bar chart represents data in rectangular bars with length of the bar proportional to the value of the
variable. R uses the function barplot() to create bar charts. R can draw both vertical and horizontal bars in
the bar chart. In bar chart each of the bars can be given different colors.

Syntax
The basic syntax to create a bar-chart in R is −

barplot(H, xlab, ylab, main, names.arg, col)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

 H is a vector or matrix containing numeric values used in bar chart.

 xlab is the label for x axis.

 ylab is the label for y axis.

 main is the title of the bar chart.

 names.arg is a vector of names appearing under each bar.

 col is used to give colors to the bars in the graph.

Example:

The following script will create and save the bar chart in the current R workingdirectory.

Output:
GroupBar ChartandStackedBar Chart
We can create bar chart with groups of bars and stacks in each bar by usinga matrix as input values.

More than two variables are represented as a matrix which is used to createthe group bar chart and stacked bar
chart.

Example:

Output:
HISTOGRAM

A histogram represents the frequencies of values of a variable bucketed intoranges. Histogram is similar to
bar chat but the difference is it groups the values into continuous ranges. Each bar in histogram represents
the height of the number of values present in that range.

R creates histogram using hist() function. This function takes a vector asan input and uses some more
parameters to plot histograms.

Syntax
The basic syntax for creating a histogram using R is –

hist(v,main,xlab,xlim,ylim,breaks,col,border)
Following is the description of the parameters used −

 v is a vector containing numeric values used in histogram.

 main indicates title of the chart.

 col is used to set color of the bars.

 border is used to set border color of each bar.

 xlab is used to give description of x-axis.

 xlim is used to specify the range of values on the x-axis.

 ylim is used to specify the range of values on the y-axis.

 breaks is used to mention the width of each bar.

Example
A simple histogram is created using input vector, label, col and borderparameters.

The script given below will create and save the histogram in the current Rworking directory.
 Output:

Range of Xand Yvalues

To specify the range of values allowed in X axis and Y axis, we can use thexlim and ylim parameters.

The width of each of the bar can be decided by using breaks.

Example:
 Output:

LINE GRAPH

A line chart is a graph that connects a series of points by drawing line segments between them. These points
are ordered in one of their coordinate (usually the x-coordinate) value. Line charts are usually used in
identifying the trends in data.

The plot() function in R is used to create the line graph.

Syntax
The basic syntax to create a line chart in R is −

plot(v,type,col,xlab,ylab)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

 v is a vector containing the numeric values.

 type takes the value "p" to draw only the points, "l" to draw only thelines and "o"
to draw both points and lines.
  xlab is the label for x axis.

 ylab is the label for y axis.

 main is the Title of the chart.

 col is used to give colors to both the points and lines.

Example
A simple line chart is created using the input vector and the type parameteras "O". The below
script will create and save a line chart in the current R working directory. The features of the
line chart has been expanded by using additional parameters. We add color to the points and
lines, give a title to the chart and add labels to the axes.

Output:
Multiple Lines ina Line Chart
More than one line can be drawn on the same chart by using
the lines()function.

After the first line is plotted, the lines() function can use an additionalvector as input to draw the
second line in the chart,

Example:

Output:
Scattar Plots

Scatterplots show many points plotted in the Cartesian plane. Each point represents the values of two
variables. One variable is chosen in thehorizontal axis and another in the vertical axis.

The simple scatterplot is created using the plot() function.

Syntax

The basic syntax for creating scatterplot in R is –

plot(x, y, main, xlab, ylab, xlim, ylim, axes)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

 x is the data set whose values are the horizontal coordinates.

 y is the data set whose values are the vertical coordinates.

 main is the tile of the graph.

 xlab is the label in the horizontal axis.

 ylab is the label in the vertical axis.

 xlim is the limits of the values of x used for plotting.

 ylim is the limits of the values of y used for plotting.

 axes indicates whether both axes should be drawn on the plot.

Example

We use the data set "iris" available in the R environment to create a basicscatter plot. Let's use the
columns "Sepal length" and "Sepal Width" in iris.

Creating the Scatterplot

The below script will create a scatterplot graph for the relation between"Sepal length" and "Sepal
Width" in iris dataset.

Example:
Output:
ScatterplotMatrices
When we have more than two variables and we want to find the correlation between one variable versus
the remaining ones we use scatterplot matrix. Weuse pairs() function to create matrices of
scatterplots.

Syntax
The basic syntax for creating scatterplot matrices in R is −

pairs(formula, data)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

 formula represents the series of variables used in pairs.

 data represents the data set from which the variables will be taken.

Example
Each variable is paired up with each of the remaining variable. A scatterplot is plottedfor each pair.
 Output:

Box Plot

Boxplots are a measure of how well distributed is the data in a data set. It divides the data set into three
quartiles. This graph represents the minimum, maximum, median, first quartile and third quartile in the data
set. It is also useful in comparing thedistribution of data across data sets by drawing boxplots for each of
them.

Boxplots are created in R by using the boxplot() function.

Syntax
The basic syntax to create a boxplot in R is −

boxplot(x, data, notch, varwidth, names, main)

 Following is the description of the parameters used –

 x is a vector or a formula.

 data is the data frame.

 notch is a logical value. Set as TRUE to draw a notch.

 varwidth is a logical value. Set as true to draw width of the box proportionate tothe
sample size.

 names are the group labels which will be printed under each boxplot.

 main is used to give a title to the graph.



Example 1:

Output:
Example 2: boxplot(iris$Petal.Length,iris$Petal.Width)Output: