reference.md

Cheat sheet of functions used in the lessons

Lesson 1 -- Introduction to R

• sqrt() # calculate the square root
• round() # round a number
• args() # find what arguments a function takes
• length() # how many elements are in a particular vector
• class() # the class (the type of element) of an object
• str() # an overview of the object and the elements it contains
• c() # create vector; add elements to vector
• [ ] # extract and subset vector
• %in% # to test if a value is found in a vector
• is.na() # test if there are missing values
• na.omit() # Returns the object with incomplete cases removed
• complete.cases()# elements which are complete cases

Lesson 2 -- Starting with data

• download.file() # download files from the internet to your computer
• read.csv() # load CSV file into R memory
• head() # shows the first 6 rows
• View() # invoke a spreadsheet-style data viewer
• read.table() # load a file in table format into R memory
• str() # check structure of the object and information about the class, length and content of each column
• dim() # check dimension of data frame
• nrow() # returns the number of rows
• ncol() # returns the number of columns
• tail() # shows the last 6 rows
• names() # returns the column names (synonym of colnames() for data frame objects)
• rownames() # returns the row names
• summary() # summary statistics for each column
• factor() # create factors
• levels() # check levels of a factor
• nlevels() # check number of levels of a factor
• as.character() # convert an object to a character vector
• as.numeric() # convert an object to a numeric vector
• as.numeric(as.character(x)) # convert factors where the levels appear as characters to a numeric vector
• as.numeric(levels(x))[x] # convert factors where the levels appear as numbers to a numeric vector
• plot() # plot an object
• data.frame() # create a data.frame object
• ymd() # convert a vector representing year, month, and day to a Date vector
• paste() # concatenate vectors after converting to character

Lesson 3 -- Manipulating, analyzing and exporting data with tidyverse

• read_csv() # load a csv formatted file into R memory
• str() # check structure of the object and information about the class, length and content of each column
• View() # invoke a spreadsheet-style data viewer
• select() # select columns of a data frame
• filter() # allows you to select a subset of rows in a data frame
• %>% # pipes to select and filter at the same time
• mutate() # create new columns based on the values in existing columns
• head() # shows the first 6 rows
• group_by() # split the data into groups, apply some analysis to each group, and then combine the results.
• summarize() # collapses each group into a single-row summary of that group
• mean() # calculate the mean value of a vector
• !is.na() # test if there are no missing values
• print() # print values to the console
• min() # return the minimum value of a vector
• arrange() # arrange rows by variables
• desc() # transform a vector into a format that will be sorted in descending order
• count() # counts the total number of records for each category
• spread() # reshape a data frame by a key-value pair across multiple columns
• gather() # reshape a data frame by collapsing into a key-value pair
• n_distinct() # get a count of unique values
• write_csv() # save to a csv formatted file

Lesson 4 -- Data visualization with ggplot2

• read_csv() # load a csv formatted file into R memory
• ggplot2(data= , aes(x= , y= )) + geom_point( ) + facet_wrap () + theme_bw() + theme()
• aes() # by selecting the variables to be plotted and the variables to define the presentation such as plotting size, shape color, etc.
• geom_ # graphical representation of the data in the plot (points, lines, bars). To add a geom to the plot use + operator
• facet_wrap() # allows to split one plot into multiple plots based on a factor included in the dataset
• labs() # set labels to plot
• theme_bw() # set the background to white
• theme() # used to locally modify one or more theme elements in a specific ggplot object
• grid.arrange() # combine and arrange multiple ggplots into a single figure
• ggsave() # save a ggplot

Lesson 5 -- SQL databases and R

• dir.create() # create a directory
• download.file() # download files from the internet to your computer
• dbConnect() # create a connection to a database
• SQLite() # connect to a SQLite database
• src_dbi() # connect dplyr to a DBI-compatible database file
• tbl # connect to a table within a database
• sql() # combine character vectors into a single SQL expression
• show_query() # show which SQL commands are sent to the database
• collect() # retrieve all the results from the database
• inner_join() # perform an inner join between two tables
• src_sqlite() # connect dplyr to a SQLite database file
• copy_to() # copy a data frame as a table into a database