Category: R

Assigning dynamic variable names Sometimes you want to use dynamic variable names, these are variable names that change (dynamically) per iteration. In the basic example below each value in the vector my.vec is iteratively re-named. Example First a dynamic name Continue Reading …

If you want to install an older version of an R package the easiest way is to find the package version you need on CRAN and download the source file, you can do this step in your browser. Once you Continue Reading …

Before we can use R for data analysis we first need to read in our data. R can read in many different types of file formats. In this post I will cover reading data from a CSV file as this Continue Reading …

R packages contain functions, compiled code and often example datasets. To install a package you use the install.packages() function, for example if you want to install a package called ggplot2 you would type the following into the console panel: Press Continue Reading …

First of all, what is R and why do we use it? R is a programming language developed by statisticians Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman. It is currently maintained by the R Core Team. R comes with many useful tools Continue Reading …