Introduction to data analysis using R

Getting Started - R Console.

Data types and Structures.

Exploring and Visualizing Data.

Programming Structures and Data Relationships.

Introduction to Data Analysis using R
Eslam Montaser Roushdi
Facultad de Inform´tica
a
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Grupo G-Tec UCM
www.tecnologiaUCM.es

February, 2014





Our aim

Study and describe in depth analysis of Big Data by using the R program
and learn how to explore datasets to extract insight.




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1)Getting Started - R Console.

R program: is a free software environment for data analysis and graphics.
R program:
i) Programming language. ii) Data analysis tool.
R is used across many industries such as healthcare, retail, and ﬁnancial
services.
R can be used to analyze both structured and unstructured datasets.
R can help you explore a new dataset and perform descriptive analysis.



1) Getting Started - R Console.






2) Data types and Structures.
i) Data types.
numeric, logical, and character data types.





ii) Data structures.
Vector.
List.
Multi-Dimensional ( Matrix/Array - Data frame).






Note that
Adding columns of data.
df1 <- cbind (df1, The new column).
Adding rows of data.
df1 <- rbind (df1, The new row).
Missing Data
Large datasets often have missing data.
Most R functions can handle.
> ages <- c (23, 45, NA)
> mean(ages)
[1] NA
> mean(ages, na.rm=TRUE)
[1] 34
Where, NA is a logical constant of length 1 which contains a missing
value indicator.





3) Exploring and Visualizing Data.

Importing and Exporting data.
Filtering/Subsets.
Sorting.
Visulization/Analysis data.
How to import external data from files into R?
Reding Data from text files:
Multiple functions to read in data from text files.
Types of Data formats.
- Delimited.
- positional.





Reading external data into R
Delimited files
R includes a family of functions for importing delimited text files into R, based
on the read.table function:
read.table(file, header, sep = , quote = , dec = , row.names, col.names,
as.is = , na.strings , colClasses , nrows =, skip = , check.names = ,
fill = , strip.white = , blank.lines.skip = , comment.char = ,
allowEscapes = , flush = , stringsAsFactors = , encoding = )
For example
name.last,name.first,team,position,salary
”Manning”,”Peyton”,”Colts”,”QB”,18700000
”Brady”,”Tom”,”Patriots”,”QB”,14626720
”Pepper”,”Julius”,”Panthers”,”DE”,14137500
”Palmer”,”Carson”,”Bengals”,”QB”,13980000
”Manning”,”Eli”,”Giants”,”QB”,12916666





Note that
The first row contains the column names.
Each text field is encapsulated in quotes.
Each field is separated by commas.
How to load this file into R
the first row contained column names (header=TRUE), that the delimiter
was a comma (sep=”,”), and that quotes were used to encapsulate text
(quote=”””).
The R statement that loads in this file:
> top.5.salaries <- read.table(”top.5.salaries.csv”,
+ header=TRUE,
+ sep=”,”,
+ quote=”””)






Fixed-width files
To read a fixed-width format text file into a data frame, you can use the
read.fwf function:
read.fwf(file, widths, header = , sep = , skip = , row.names, col.names,
n = , buffersize = ,. . .)

Note that
read.fwf can also take many arguments used by read.table, including as.is,
na.strings, colClasses, and strip.white.




Let’s explore a public data using R.







Now let’s visualize trends in our data using Data Visualizations or graphics





4) Programming Structures and Data Relationships.





Let’s examine decision making in R





Functions - Example
> f1 <- function(a,b) { return(a+b) }
> f2 <- function(a,b) { return(a-b) }
> f <- f1
> f(3,8)
[1] 11
> f <- f2
> f(5,4)
[1] 1
The apply family of functions
apply() can apply a function to elements of a matrix or an array.
lapply() applies a function to each column of a dataframe and returns a
list.
sapply() is similar but the output is simpliﬁed. It may be a vector or a
matrix depending on the function.
tapply() applies the function for each level of a factor.






Common useful built-in functions
all()

#returns TRUE if all values are TRUE.

any()
args()
cat()

# returns TRUE if any values are TRUE.
# information on the arguments to a function.
# prints multiple objects, one after the other.

cumprod()

# cumulative product.

cumsum()

# cumulative sum.

mean()

# mean of the elements of a vector.

median() # median of the elements of a vector.
order()

# prints a single R object.




Thanks!!






References

Grant Hutchison, Introduction to Data Analysis using R, October 2013.
John Maindonald, W. John Braun, Data Analysis and Graphics Using R:
An Example-Based Approach (Cambridge Series in Statistical and
Probabilistic Mathematics), Third Edition, Cambridge University Press
2003.
Nicholas J. Horton, Ken Kleinman, Using R for Data Management,
Statistical Analysis, and Graphics, CRC Press, 2010.

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