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Dataframes in R: Takeaways

by Dataquest Labs, Inc. - All rights reserved © 2022

Syntax
• Import a dataset:

library(readr)

data <- read_csv("name_of_file_with_data.csv")

• Learn about a tibbles columns, types and dimensions:

> glimpse(recent_grads)

Observations: 173

Variables: 18

$ Rank 1, 2...

$ Major_code 2419, 2416...

$ Major "PETROLEUM ENGINEERING", "MINING AND MINERAL ENGINEERING"...

• Return the number or rows or columns from a tibble:

nrow(data) # returns the number of rows in `data`

ncol(data) # returns the number of rows in `data`

• Pick columns to keep or remove from your data:

# Keeping data

filtered_data <- select(recent_grads, Rank, Major)

# Removing data

filtered_data <- select(recent_grads, -College_jobs)

• Filter rows based on conditions:

top_100_majors <- filter(recent_grads, Rank < 100)

• Chain together tidyverse functions into a pipeline:

library(dplyr)

low_total_ranked_majors <- recent_grads %>%


select(., Rank, Major, Total) %>%

filter(., ranked_majors, Total < 2000)

• Create new columns:

new_recent_grads <- recent_grads %>%

mutate(

prop_male = Men / Total

• Sort data by a particular or multiple columns:

new_recent_grads <- recent_grads %>%

mutate(

prop_male = Men / Total

) %>%

arrange(-prop_male)

• Use head() to return just the first few rows of a tibble

> head(new_recent_grads)

# A tibble: 6 x 3

Total Men prop_male

1 124 124 1

2 4790 4419 0.923

3 18498 16820 0.909

4 756 679 0.898

5 1258 1123 0.893

6 91227 80320 0.880

• Use summarize() to calculate some summary values based on entire columns:

summary_table <- recent_grads %>%

summarize(

avg_unemp = mean(Unemployment_rate),

min_unemp = min(Unemployment_rate),

max_unemp = max(Unemployment_rate)

)
Concepts
• The four data structures covered in this course are:

• Vector: one-dimensional structure for storing values of SAME TYPE.


• Matrix: two-dimensional structure for storing values of SAME TYPE.
• Lists: multi-dimensional stucture for storing values of ANY DATA TYPE/OBJECT.
• Dataframe: two-dimensional structure for storing values of ANY DATA TYPE/
OBJECT.

• Tabular data is organized into rows, where one row represents a single entity and columns
represent different characteristics of this row.

• Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and CSV files are common ways that we see tabular data.
• Tibbles are a data structure that implements tabular data in R and the tidyverse .

• Piping enables us to create pipelines with all of the functions we learned, allowing us to convert
raw data in tibbles to more refined datasets.

Takeaways by Dataquest Labs, Inc. - All rights reserved © 2022

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