- •brief contents
- •contents
- •preface
- •acknowledgments
- •about this book
- •What’s new in the second edition
- •Who should read this book
- •Roadmap
- •Advice for data miners
- •Code examples
- •Code conventions
- •Author Online
- •About the author
- •about the cover illustration
- •1 Introduction to R
- •1.2 Obtaining and installing R
- •1.3 Working with R
- •1.3.1 Getting started
- •1.3.2 Getting help
- •1.3.3 The workspace
- •1.3.4 Input and output
- •1.4 Packages
- •1.4.1 What are packages?
- •1.4.2 Installing a package
- •1.4.3 Loading a package
- •1.4.4 Learning about a package
- •1.5 Batch processing
- •1.6 Using output as input: reusing results
- •1.7 Working with large datasets
- •1.8 Working through an example
- •1.9 Summary
- •2 Creating a dataset
- •2.1 Understanding datasets
- •2.2 Data structures
- •2.2.1 Vectors
- •2.2.2 Matrices
- •2.2.3 Arrays
- •2.2.4 Data frames
- •2.2.5 Factors
- •2.2.6 Lists
- •2.3 Data input
- •2.3.1 Entering data from the keyboard
- •2.3.2 Importing data from a delimited text file
- •2.3.3 Importing data from Excel
- •2.3.4 Importing data from XML
- •2.3.5 Importing data from the web
- •2.3.6 Importing data from SPSS
- •2.3.7 Importing data from SAS
- •2.3.8 Importing data from Stata
- •2.3.9 Importing data from NetCDF
- •2.3.10 Importing data from HDF5
- •2.3.11 Accessing database management systems (DBMSs)
- •2.3.12 Importing data via Stat/Transfer
- •2.4 Annotating datasets
- •2.4.1 Variable labels
- •2.4.2 Value labels
- •2.5 Useful functions for working with data objects
- •2.6 Summary
- •3 Getting started with graphs
- •3.1 Working with graphs
- •3.2 A simple example
- •3.3 Graphical parameters
- •3.3.1 Symbols and lines
- •3.3.2 Colors
- •3.3.3 Text characteristics
- •3.3.4 Graph and margin dimensions
- •3.4 Adding text, customized axes, and legends
- •3.4.1 Titles
- •3.4.2 Axes
- •3.4.3 Reference lines
- •3.4.4 Legend
- •3.4.5 Text annotations
- •3.4.6 Math annotations
- •3.5 Combining graphs
- •3.5.1 Creating a figure arrangement with fine control
- •3.6 Summary
- •4 Basic data management
- •4.1 A working example
- •4.2 Creating new variables
- •4.3 Recoding variables
- •4.4 Renaming variables
- •4.5 Missing values
- •4.5.1 Recoding values to missing
- •4.5.2 Excluding missing values from analyses
- •4.6 Date values
- •4.6.1 Converting dates to character variables
- •4.6.2 Going further
- •4.7 Type conversions
- •4.8 Sorting data
- •4.9 Merging datasets
- •4.9.1 Adding columns to a data frame
- •4.9.2 Adding rows to a data frame
- •4.10 Subsetting datasets
- •4.10.1 Selecting (keeping) variables
- •4.10.2 Excluding (dropping) variables
- •4.10.3 Selecting observations
- •4.10.4 The subset() function
- •4.10.5 Random samples
- •4.11 Using SQL statements to manipulate data frames
- •4.12 Summary
- •5 Advanced data management
- •5.2 Numerical and character functions
- •5.2.1 Mathematical functions
- •5.2.2 Statistical functions
- •5.2.3 Probability functions
- •5.2.4 Character functions
- •5.2.5 Other useful functions
- •5.2.6 Applying functions to matrices and data frames
- •5.3 A solution for the data-management challenge
- •5.4 Control flow
- •5.4.1 Repetition and looping
- •5.4.2 Conditional execution
- •5.5 User-written functions
- •5.6 Aggregation and reshaping
- •5.6.1 Transpose
- •5.6.2 Aggregating data
- •5.6.3 The reshape2 package
- •5.7 Summary
- •6 Basic graphs
- •6.1 Bar plots
- •6.1.1 Simple bar plots
- •6.1.2 Stacked and grouped bar plots
- •6.1.3 Mean bar plots
- •6.1.4 Tweaking bar plots
- •6.1.5 Spinograms
- •6.2 Pie charts
- •6.3 Histograms
- •6.4 Kernel density plots
- •6.5 Box plots
- •6.5.1 Using parallel box plots to compare groups
- •6.5.2 Violin plots
- •6.6 Dot plots
- •6.7 Summary
- •7 Basic statistics
- •7.1 Descriptive statistics
- •7.1.1 A menagerie of methods
- •7.1.2 Even more methods
- •7.1.3 Descriptive statistics by group
- •7.1.4 Additional methods by group
- •7.1.5 Visualizing results
- •7.2 Frequency and contingency tables
- •7.2.1 Generating frequency tables
- •7.2.2 Tests of independence
- •7.2.3 Measures of association
- •7.2.4 Visualizing results
- •7.3 Correlations
- •7.3.1 Types of correlations
- •7.3.2 Testing correlations for significance
- •7.3.3 Visualizing correlations
- •7.4 T-tests
- •7.4.3 When there are more than two groups
- •7.5 Nonparametric tests of group differences
- •7.5.1 Comparing two groups
- •7.5.2 Comparing more than two groups
- •7.6 Visualizing group differences
- •7.7 Summary
- •8 Regression
- •8.1 The many faces of regression
- •8.1.1 Scenarios for using OLS regression
- •8.1.2 What you need to know
- •8.2 OLS regression
- •8.2.1 Fitting regression models with lm()
- •8.2.2 Simple linear regression
- •8.2.3 Polynomial regression
- •8.2.4 Multiple linear regression
- •8.2.5 Multiple linear regression with interactions
- •8.3 Regression diagnostics
- •8.3.1 A typical approach
- •8.3.2 An enhanced approach
- •8.3.3 Global validation of linear model assumption
- •8.3.4 Multicollinearity
- •8.4 Unusual observations
- •8.4.1 Outliers
- •8.4.3 Influential observations
- •8.5 Corrective measures
- •8.5.1 Deleting observations
- •8.5.2 Transforming variables
- •8.5.3 Adding or deleting variables
- •8.5.4 Trying a different approach
- •8.6 Selecting the “best” regression model
- •8.6.1 Comparing models
- •8.6.2 Variable selection
- •8.7 Taking the analysis further
- •8.7.1 Cross-validation
- •8.7.2 Relative importance
- •8.8 Summary
- •9 Analysis of variance
- •9.1 A crash course on terminology
- •9.2 Fitting ANOVA models
- •9.2.1 The aov() function
- •9.2.2 The order of formula terms
- •9.3.1 Multiple comparisons
- •9.3.2 Assessing test assumptions
- •9.4 One-way ANCOVA
- •9.4.1 Assessing test assumptions
- •9.4.2 Visualizing the results
- •9.6 Repeated measures ANOVA
- •9.7 Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)
- •9.7.1 Assessing test assumptions
- •9.7.2 Robust MANOVA
- •9.8 ANOVA as regression
- •9.9 Summary
- •10 Power analysis
- •10.1 A quick review of hypothesis testing
- •10.2 Implementing power analysis with the pwr package
- •10.2.1 t-tests
- •10.2.2 ANOVA
- •10.2.3 Correlations
- •10.2.4 Linear models
- •10.2.5 Tests of proportions
- •10.2.7 Choosing an appropriate effect size in novel situations
- •10.3 Creating power analysis plots
- •10.4 Other packages
- •10.5 Summary
- •11 Intermediate graphs
- •11.1 Scatter plots
- •11.1.3 3D scatter plots
- •11.1.4 Spinning 3D scatter plots
- •11.1.5 Bubble plots
- •11.2 Line charts
- •11.3 Corrgrams
- •11.4 Mosaic plots
- •11.5 Summary
- •12 Resampling statistics and bootstrapping
- •12.1 Permutation tests
- •12.2 Permutation tests with the coin package
- •12.2.2 Independence in contingency tables
- •12.2.3 Independence between numeric variables
- •12.2.5 Going further
- •12.3 Permutation tests with the lmPerm package
- •12.3.1 Simple and polynomial regression
- •12.3.2 Multiple regression
- •12.4 Additional comments on permutation tests
- •12.5 Bootstrapping
- •12.6 Bootstrapping with the boot package
- •12.6.1 Bootstrapping a single statistic
- •12.6.2 Bootstrapping several statistics
- •12.7 Summary
- •13 Generalized linear models
- •13.1 Generalized linear models and the glm() function
- •13.1.1 The glm() function
- •13.1.2 Supporting functions
- •13.1.3 Model fit and regression diagnostics
- •13.2 Logistic regression
- •13.2.1 Interpreting the model parameters
- •13.2.2 Assessing the impact of predictors on the probability of an outcome
- •13.2.3 Overdispersion
- •13.2.4 Extensions
- •13.3 Poisson regression
- •13.3.1 Interpreting the model parameters
- •13.3.2 Overdispersion
- •13.3.3 Extensions
- •13.4 Summary
- •14 Principal components and factor analysis
- •14.1 Principal components and factor analysis in R
- •14.2 Principal components
- •14.2.1 Selecting the number of components to extract
- •14.2.2 Extracting principal components
- •14.2.3 Rotating principal components
- •14.2.4 Obtaining principal components scores
- •14.3 Exploratory factor analysis
- •14.3.1 Deciding how many common factors to extract
- •14.3.2 Extracting common factors
- •14.3.3 Rotating factors
- •14.3.4 Factor scores
- •14.4 Other latent variable models
- •14.5 Summary
- •15 Time series
- •15.1 Creating a time-series object in R
- •15.2 Smoothing and seasonal decomposition
- •15.2.1 Smoothing with simple moving averages
- •15.2.2 Seasonal decomposition
- •15.3 Exponential forecasting models
- •15.3.1 Simple exponential smoothing
- •15.3.3 The ets() function and automated forecasting
- •15.4 ARIMA forecasting models
- •15.4.1 Prerequisite concepts
- •15.4.2 ARMA and ARIMA models
- •15.4.3 Automated ARIMA forecasting
- •15.5 Going further
- •15.6 Summary
- •16 Cluster analysis
- •16.1 Common steps in cluster analysis
- •16.2 Calculating distances
- •16.3 Hierarchical cluster analysis
- •16.4 Partitioning cluster analysis
- •16.4.2 Partitioning around medoids
- •16.5 Avoiding nonexistent clusters
- •16.6 Summary
- •17 Classification
- •17.1 Preparing the data
- •17.2 Logistic regression
- •17.3 Decision trees
- •17.3.1 Classical decision trees
- •17.3.2 Conditional inference trees
- •17.4 Random forests
- •17.5 Support vector machines
- •17.5.1 Tuning an SVM
- •17.6 Choosing a best predictive solution
- •17.7 Using the rattle package for data mining
- •17.8 Summary
- •18 Advanced methods for missing data
- •18.1 Steps in dealing with missing data
- •18.2 Identifying missing values
- •18.3 Exploring missing-values patterns
- •18.3.1 Tabulating missing values
- •18.3.2 Exploring missing data visually
- •18.3.3 Using correlations to explore missing values
- •18.4 Understanding the sources and impact of missing data
- •18.5 Rational approaches for dealing with incomplete data
- •18.6 Complete-case analysis (listwise deletion)
- •18.7 Multiple imputation
- •18.8 Other approaches to missing data
- •18.8.1 Pairwise deletion
- •18.8.2 Simple (nonstochastic) imputation
- •18.9 Summary
- •19 Advanced graphics with ggplot2
- •19.1 The four graphics systems in R
- •19.2 An introduction to the ggplot2 package
- •19.3 Specifying the plot type with geoms
- •19.4 Grouping
- •19.5 Faceting
- •19.6 Adding smoothed lines
- •19.7 Modifying the appearance of ggplot2 graphs
- •19.7.1 Axes
- •19.7.2 Legends
- •19.7.3 Scales
- •19.7.4 Themes
- •19.7.5 Multiple graphs per page
- •19.8 Saving graphs
- •19.9 Summary
- •20 Advanced programming
- •20.1 A review of the language
- •20.1.1 Data types
- •20.1.2 Control structures
- •20.1.3 Creating functions
- •20.2 Working with environments
- •20.3 Object-oriented programming
- •20.3.1 Generic functions
- •20.3.2 Limitations of the S3 model
- •20.4 Writing efficient code
- •20.5 Debugging
- •20.5.1 Common sources of errors
- •20.5.2 Debugging tools
- •20.5.3 Session options that support debugging
- •20.6 Going further
- •20.7 Summary
- •21 Creating a package
- •21.1 Nonparametric analysis and the npar package
- •21.1.1 Comparing groups with the npar package
- •21.2 Developing the package
- •21.2.1 Computing the statistics
- •21.2.2 Printing the results
- •21.2.3 Summarizing the results
- •21.2.4 Plotting the results
- •21.2.5 Adding sample data to the package
- •21.3 Creating the package documentation
- •21.4 Building the package
- •21.5 Going further
- •21.6 Summary
- •22 Creating dynamic reports
- •22.1 A template approach to reports
- •22.2 Creating dynamic reports with R and Markdown
- •22.3 Creating dynamic reports with R and LaTeX
- •22.4 Creating dynamic reports with R and Open Document
- •22.5 Creating dynamic reports with R and Microsoft Word
- •22.6 Summary
- •afterword Into the rabbit hole
- •appendix A Graphical user interfaces
- •appendix B Customizing the startup environment
- •appendix C Exporting data from R
- •Delimited text file
- •Excel spreadsheet
- •Statistical applications
- •appendix D Matrix algebra in R
- •appendix E Packages used in this book
- •appendix F Working with large datasets
- •F.1 Efficient programming
- •F.2 Storing data outside of RAM
- •F.3 Analytic packages for out-of-memory data
- •F.4 Comprehensive solutions for working with enormous datasets
- •appendix G Updating an R installation
- •G.1 Automated installation (Windows only)
- •G.2 Manual installation (Windows and Mac OS X)
- •G.3 Updating an R installation (Linux)
- •references
- •index
- •Symbols
- •Numerics
- •23.1 The lattice package
- •23.2 Conditioning variables
- •23.3 Panel functions
- •23.4 Grouping variables
- •23.5 Graphic parameters
- •23.6 Customizing plot strips
- •23.7 Page arrangement
- •23.8 Going further
appendix G Updating an R installation
As consumers, we take for granted that we can update a piece of software via a Check for Updates option. In chapter 1, I noted that the update.packages() function can be used to download and install the most recent version of a contributed package. Unfortunately, updating the R installation itself can be more complicated.
If you want to update an R installation from version 5.1.0 to 6.1.1, you must get creative. (As I write this, the current version is actually 3.1.1, but I want this book to appear hip and current for years to come.) Two methods are described here: an automated method using the installr package and a manual method that works on all platforms.
G.1 Automated installation (Windows only)
If you’re a Windows user, you can use the installr package to update an R installation. First install the package and load it:
install.packages("installr")
library(installr)
This adds an Update menu to the RGui (see figure G.1).
The menu allows you to install a new version of R, update existing packages, and install other useful software produces (such as RStudio). Currently, the
Figure G.1 Update menu added to Windows RGui by the installr package
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installr package is only available for Windows platforms. For Mac users, or Windows users that don’t want to use installr, updating R is usually a manual process.
G.2 Manual installation (Windows and Mac OS X)
Downloading and installing the latest version of R from CRAN (http://cran.r-project
.org/bin) is relatively straightforward. The complicating factor is that customizations (including previously installed contributed packages) aren’t included in the new installation. In my current setup, I have more than 500 contributed packages installed. I really don’t want to have to write down their names and reinstall them by hand the next time I upgrade my R installation!
There has been much discussion on the web concerning the most elegant and efficient way to update an R installation. The method described here is neither elegant nor efficient, but I find that it works well on both Windows and Mac platforms.
In this approach, you use the installed.packages() function to save a list of packages to a location outside of the R directory tree, and then you use the list with the install.packages() function to download and install the latest contributed packages into the new R installation. Here are the steps:
1If you have a customized Rprofile.site file (see appendix B), save a copy outside of R.
2Launch your current version of R, and issue the following statements
oldip <- installed.packages()[,1]
save(oldip, file="path/installedPackages.Rdata")
where path is a directory outside of R.
3Download and install the newer version of R.
4If you saved a customized version of the Rprofile.site file in step 1, copy it into the new installation.
5Launch the new version of R, and issue the following statements
load("path/installedPackages.Rdata") newip <- installed.packages()[,1] for(i in setdiff(oldip, newip)){
install.packages(i)
}
where path is the location specified in step 2.
6 Delete the old installation (optional).
This approach will install only packages that are available from CRAN. It won’t find packages obtained from other locations. You’ll have to find and download these separately. Luckily, the process displays a list of packages that can’t be installed. During my last installation, globaltest and Biobase couldn’t be found. Because I got them from the Bioconductor site, I was able to install them via this code:
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("globaltest")
biocLite("Biobase")
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Step 6 involves the optional deletion of the old installation. On a Windows machine, more than one version of R can be installed at a time. If desired, uninstall the older version via Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a Program. On Mac platforms, the new version of R will overwrite the older version. To delete any remnants on a Mac, use the Finder to go to the /Library/Frameworks/R.frameworks/versions/ directory, and delete the folder representing the older version.
Clearly, manually updating an existing version of R is more involved than is desirable for such a sophisticated piece of software. I’m hopeful that someday this appendix will simply say “Select the Check for Updates option” to update an R installation.
G.3 Updating an R installation (Linux)
The process of updating an R installation on a Linux platform is quite different from the process used on Windows and Mac OS X machines. Additionally, it varies by Linux distribution (Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, or Ubuntu). See http://cran.r-project.org/ bin/linux for details.