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Getting Started With RStudio and Installing Packages

This document provides a step-by-step guide for getting started with RStudio, including loading the iris dataset and installing necessary packages. It outlines specific commands to run in the R Script editor and Console, as well as details about the dataset's structure. The lab concludes with an invitation to enjoy the exercise, authored by Romeo and contributed to by Lavanya.

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Getting Started With RStudio and Installing Packages

This document provides a step-by-step guide for getting started with RStudio, including loading the iris dataset and installing necessary packages. It outlines specific commands to run in the R Script editor and Console, as well as details about the dataset's structure. The lab concludes with an invitation to enjoy the exercise, authored by Romeo and contributed to by Lavanya.

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Getting started with RStudio and Installing


packages

Objectives of Exercise:
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

Load the datasets


Install libraries

Step 1 - Click the plus symbol on the top left and click R Script.

An untitled R Script panel opens. It would look like this.

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Step 2 - Now you load the iris dataset. Enter the following lines into the editor window that appears. Then select
all the text, and click Run just above the editor window.

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1. library (datasets)
2. data(iris)
3. View(iris)

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Step 3 - You are taken to the data view tab to inspect your dataset. The dataset contains five columns and the
first four are floating point type while the last column is a label of data type string which contains the category
value. You can see there are total 150 entries of which you can see the first 7.

Step 4 - Now you can find the different species present in the data set. Enter the following command in the
editor window and click Run.

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1. unique(iris$Species)

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In the Console window at the bottom you can see the result of the executed command and know that there are
only three different species present in the data set.

Step 5 - Next you will look into the data set in more detail. Open a Console.

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Step 6 - Run the following command in the console.


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1. install.packages("GGally", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org", type = "source")

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Step 7 - Click Enter to install the packages.

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This concludes the lab; I hope you enjoyed it!

Author(s)
Romeo

Other Contributor(s)

Lavanya

Change log
Date Version Changed by Change Description
2021-13-01 2.4 Malika Singla Update the installation for R packages
2020-12-10 2.3 Aije Moved plot steps to a new lab
2020-12-10 2.2 Malika Singla Update the installation for R packages
2020-12-07 2.1 Aije Changed instructions to use Skills Network Lab
2020-08-25 2.0 Lavanya Migrated Lab to Markdown and added to course repo in GitLab

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