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Quick Reference of R

Last modified: Jan, 2013

Install Precompiled R Binaries on Ubuntu

The instructions have been well documented at this link.

Compile R from source on Ubuntun

This is an alternative from installing the binaries from a repository.

Download R source tar ball from http://r-project.org/. R depends on several libraries. Install them first before compiling R.

sudo apt-get install gcc gfortran libreadline-dev xorg-dev

Extract the tar ball and cd into the directory. Configure the installation

./configure --prefix=$HOME/local

Here I want to install all compiled results to $HOME/local. After this command exits without error, do

make

This is going to take a while. When it finishes, you can either link the ‘bin/R’ a place you like, or do

make install

to install the whole thing under $HOME/local.

Find the dimension of a dataframe

  • nrow(df) returns the number of row
  • length(df) returns the number of columns
  • dim(df) returns the dimension (like the size() function in Matlab)

Import data to R

Most commonly:

mydata <- read.table("c:/mydata.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",", row.names="id")

Reference: http://www.statmethods.net/input/importingdata.html

Remove all variables in the workspace

rm(list=ls(all=TRUE))

like the clear() in Matlab