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https://bitbucket.org/tavisrudd/r_users_group_1/src https://bitbucket.org/tavisrudd/r_users_group_1/get/tip.zip https://bitbucket.org/tavisrudd/r_users_group_1/get/tip.tar.gz

Introductions And A Quick Survey

Name and background

Experience with R?

Statistical training/experience?

Programming experience?

If no R experience, what have you heard about R?

If no R experience, what do you want to learn?

Thanks to our Sponsors!

Pulse Energy, our host

Revolution Analytics

Goals

Today

stoke your interest!

have some fun playing with it

line up speakers for next meeting in May

For the Group

Not just about R!

Data management, analysis and visualization in general

meetings every 2 months

mix of interactive sessions and talks

R as an Environment

long history (S, S-PLUS)

huge, rapidly growing community

thousands of libraries http://crantastic.org/ http://cran.r-project.org/ Lots of interesting blogs: http://www.r-bloggers.com/ http://learnr.wordpress.com/

optimized for fast, INTERACTIVE data exploration

awesome help system

very easy to learn the basics, while doing useful things

A Few Quick Examples

employment data

unemployment

US crimes by state

murder_vs_burglary

timeseries lattice graphics of sales data

lattice_example

Crayola colours over the years

crayola

calendar heat map of blog posts

heatmap

R as a Programming Language

assignment with <- instead of =

not zero indexed, starts at 1..

vector-based rather than scalar based (very important!)

functional, in a loose sense

higher order functions

lexical scoping

an “expression language”

looping in R syntax is inefficient

… but there are higher order functions that make it very efficient and easy.

not side-effect free, like Haskell or Erlang!

Very useful built-in data types (similar to Python)

with a very useful vector/array/matrix slicing syntax

functions take keyword arguments, with optional defaults

“object-oriented”, but with “generic functions”

obj$attr NOT obj.attr

this.is.just.a.variable.name this_is_a_valid_varname for modern versions of R, but wasn’t in the past

a bit inconsistent and idiosyncratic, but awesome nonetheless

Exercises

import a small tabular / numeric dataset into R

Preferably your own data from real life projects, but there is plenty of interesting CSV data on the web if you can’t use your own.

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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README		README
README.org		README.org
build_tags.sh		build_tags.sh
calendarHeat.R		calendarHeat.R
cellphone_chart.png		cellphone_chart.png
cellphone_subscriptions_timeseries.R		cellphone_subscriptions_timeseries.R
crayola.R		crayola.R
crimeRatesByState2008.csv		crimeRatesByState2008.csv
diamonds.R		diamonds.R
lattice_timeseries_plots.R		lattice_timeseries_plots.R
life_sciences_heatmap.R		life_sciences_heatmap.R
murder.R		murder.R
tls-20091223.unique.csv		tls-20091223.unique.csv
unemployment.R		unemployment.R
van_housing.R		van_housing.R
van_housing_facet_by_decade.png		van_housing_facet_by_decade.png
van_housing_facet_by_decade_colour_by_type.png		van_housing_facet_by_decade_colour_by_type.png
van_housing_facet_by_type_and_decade.png		van_housing_facet_by_type_and_decade.png
van_housing_facet_by_type_and_decade_colour_by_type.png		van_housing_facet_by_type_and_decade_colour_by_type.png
van_housing_facet_by_type_and_decade_colour_by_type_final.png		van_housing_facet_by_type_and_decade_colour_by_type_final.png
van_housing_orig.png		van_housing_orig.png

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