R Vectors
R Vectors
PACKAGES IN R PROGRAMMING
•THE PACKAGE IS AN APPROPRIATE WAY TO ORGANIZE THE WORK
AND SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. TYPICALLY, A PACKAGE WILL INCLUDE
CODE (NOT ONLY R CODE!), DOCUMENTATION FOR THE PACKAGE AND
THE FUNCTIONS INSIDE, SOME TESTS TO CHECK EVERYTHING WORKS
AS IT SHOULD, AND DATA SETS.
•PACKAGES IN R
•PACKAGES IN R PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ARE A SET OF R FUNCTIONS, COMPILED CODE, AND SAMPLE DATA. THESE
ARE STORED UNDER A DIRECTORY CALLED “LIBRARY” WITHIN THE R ENVIRONMENT. BY DEFAULT, R INSTALLS A
GROUP OF PACKAGES DURING INSTALLATION. ONCE WE START THE R CONSOLE, ONLY THE DEFAULT PACKAGES ARE
AVAILABLE BY DEFAULT. OTHER PACKAGES THAT ARE ALREADY INSTALLED NEED TO BE LOADED EXPLICITLY TO BE
UTILIZED BY THE R PROGRAM THAT’S GETTING TO USE THEM.
• GITHUB: GITHUB IS THE MOST POPULAR REPOSITORY FOR OPEN-SOURCE PROJECTS. IT’S POPULAR AS IT
COMES FROM THE UNLIMITED SPACE FOR OPEN SOURCE, THE INTEGRATION WITH GIT, A VERSION
CONTROL SOFTWARE, AND ITS EASE TO SHARE AND COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PACKAGE AND A
LIBRARY
•THERE IS ALWAYS CONFUSION BETWEEN A PACKAGE AND A
LIBRARY, AND WE FIND PEOPLE CALLING LIBRARIES AS
PACKAGES.
LIBRARY(): IT IS THE COMMAND USED TO LOAD A
PACKAGE, AND IT REFERS TO THE PLACE WHERE THE
PACKAGE IS CONTAINED, USUALLY A FOLDER ON OUR
COMPUTER.
PACKAGE: IT IS A COLLECTION OF FUNCTIONS
BUNDLED CONVENIENTLY. THE PACKAGE IS AN
1) DPLYR R LIBRARY AND PACKAGE
•THANK YOU!!!!