A talk on recent developments in and around the R programming environment.

1. Next generation programming in R
Florian Uhlitz
uhlitz@hu-berlin.de
uhlitz.github.io
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2. magrittr
readr
tidyr
dplyr
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load data
reshape data
manipulate data
Stefan Milton Bache,
University of Southern Denmark
Hadley Wickham,
Rice University, RStudio
Recent developments in the R environment

3. magrittr
readr tidyr dplyr
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load reshape manipulate%>% %>%
Toolbox for data wrangling in R
data wrangling
adapted from H. Wickham

4. magrittr
readr tidyr dplyr
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load reshape manipulate%>% %>%
Toolbox for data wrangling in R
data wrangling
model
visualise
adapted from H. Wickham

5. report
magrittr
readr tidyr dplyr
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load reshape manipulate%>% %>%
Toolbox for data wrangling in R
data wrangling
model
visualise
adapted from H. Wickham

6. report
magrittr
readr tidyr dplyr
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load reshape manipulate%>% %>%
Toolbox for data wrangling in R
data wrangling
model
visualise
base
ggplot2
rmarkdown
broom
adapted from H. Wickham

7. data analysis
report
magrittr
readr tidyr dplyr
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load reshape manipulate%>% %>%
Toolbox for data wrangling in R
data wrangling
model
visualise
base
ggplot2
rmarkdown
broom
adapted from H. Wickham

8. magrittr
In a pipe, the result of the left hand statement is handed
over to the function on the right hand side:
…similar to Unix pipe operator |
f(x, y)
x %>% f(y)
f(x, y, z)
x %>% f(y, z)
f2(f1(x), y)
f1(x) %>% f2(y)

9. magrittr
nested
functions

10. magrittr
nested
functions
chain of
functions

11. readr, readxl, haven
readr::read_csv()
readr::read_tsv()
readr::read_log()
readr::read_delim()
readr::read_fwf()
readr::read_table()
readxl::read_excel()
haven::read_sas()
haven::read_spss()
haven::read_stata()

12. tidyr
gather() spread()
Reshaping
adapted from rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

13. tidyr
gather() spread()
separate() unite()
Reshaping
adapted from rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

14. dplyr
filter(x > 1) select(B, C, E)
A B C D E B C Ex
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Subsetting
adapted from rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

15. dplyr
Transforming Summarising
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mutate(z = x + y) summarise(A = sum(x), B = sum(y))
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adapted from rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

16. dplyr
Transforming Summarising
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mutate(z = x + y) summarise(A = sum(x), B = sum(y))
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group_by() %>% mutate() group_by() %>% summarise()
adapted from rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

17. What`s tidy data?
KEEP
CALMAND
TIDY
UP

18. »Happy families are all alike; every unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way.«
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina principle

19. »Tidy data sets are all alike; every messy
data set is messy in its own way.«
Hadley Wickham
Tidy data principle

20. Tidy data definition
Wickham, H. (2014). Tidy Data. Journal of Statistical Software

27. read_excel(“untidy_data.xlsx”) %>%
set_colnames(mynames) %>%
slice(1:36) %>%
fill(group, condition) %>%
separate(group, into = c(“Gene”, “Mutation”, “clone”), sep = “_”) %>%
write_tsv(“tidy_data.tsv”)

28. read_excel(“untidy_data.xlsx”) %>%
set_colnames(mynames) %>%
slice(1:36) %>%
fill(group, condition) %>%
separate(group, into = c(“Gene”, “Mutation”, “clone”), sep = “_”) %>%
write_tsv(“tidy_data.tsv”)

29. read_excel

30. read_excel %>% set_colnames

31. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% tail

32. read_excel %>% set_colnames

33. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice

34. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice %>% fill

35. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice %>% fill %>% select

36. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice %>% fill %>% select %>% distinct

37. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice %>% fill %>% select %>% distinct %>%
separate

38. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice %>% fill %>% select %>% distinct %>%
separate
Caution!
readr, tidy & dplyr do “clever” stuff.
(heuristics like predicting a column class by
looking at the first 1000 entries)

39. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice %>% fill %>% select %>% distinct
separate

40. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice %>% fill %>% select %>% distinct
separate %>% unite

41. read_excel %>% set_colnames %>% slice %>% fill %>% select %>% distinct
separate %>% unite

43. Tidy data definition
Wickham, H. (2014). Tidy Data. Journal of Statistical Software

44. read_tsv

45. read_tsv %>% gather(key, value, -variable)

46. read_tsv %>% gather %>% spread(key, value)

47. read_tsv %>% gather

48. read_tsv %>% gather %>% filter

49. read_tsv %>% gather %>% filter %>% group_by

50. read_tsv %>% gather %>% filter %>% group_by %>% summarise %>% arrange

51. read_tsv %>% gather %>% filter %>% group_by %>% summarise %>% arrange

52. read_tsv %>% gather %>% filter %>% group_by %>% summarise %>% arrange

53. Data Wrangling
with dplyr and tidyr
Cheat Sheet
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Syntax - Helpful conventions for wrangling
dplyr::tbl_df(iris)
Converts data to tbl class. tbl’s are easier to examine than
data frames. R displays only the data that fits onscreen:
dplyr::glimpse(iris)
Information dense summary of tbl data.
utils::View(iris)
View data set in spreadsheet-like display (note capital V).
Source: local data frame [150 x 5]
Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length
1 5.1 3.5 1.4
2 4.9 3.0 1.4
3 4.7 3.2 1.3
4 4.6 3.1 1.5
5 5.0 3.6 1.4
.. ... ... ...
Variables not shown: Petal.Width (dbl),
Species (fctr)
dplyr::%>%
Passes object on left hand side as first argument (or .
argument) of function on righthand side.
"Piping" with %>% makes code more readable, e.g.
iris %>%
group_by(Species) %>%
summarise(avg = mean(Sepal.Width)) %>%
arrange(avg)
x %>% f(y) is the same as f(x, y)
y %>% f(x, ., z) is the same as f(x, y, z )
Reshaping Data - Change the layout of a data set
Subset Observations (Rows) Subset Variables (Columns)
F M A
Each variable is saved
in its own column
F M A
Each observation is
saved in its own row
In a tidy
data set: &
Tidy Data - A foundation for wrangling in R
Tidy data complements R’s vectorized
operations. R will automatically preserve
observations as you manipulate variables.
No other format works as intuitively with R.
FAM
M * A
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tidyr::gather(cases, "year", "n", 2:4)
Gather columns into rows.
tidyr::unite(data, col, ..., sep)
Unite several columns into one.
dplyr::data_frame(a = 1:3, b = 4:6)
Combine vectors into data frame
(optimized).
dplyr::arrange(mtcars, mpg)
Order rows by values of a column
(low to high).
dplyr::arrange(mtcars, desc(mpg))
Order rows by values of a column
(high to low).
dplyr::rename(tb, y = year)
Rename the columns of a data
frame.
tidyr::spread(pollution, size, amount)
Spread rows into columns.
tidyr::separate(storms, date, c("y", "m", "d"))
Separate one column into several.
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dplyr::filter(iris, Sepal.Length > 7)
Extract rows that meet logical criteria.
dplyr::distinct(iris)
Remove duplicate rows.
dplyr::sample_frac(iris, 0.5, replace = TRUE)
Randomly select fraction of rows.
dplyr::sample_n(iris, 10, replace = TRUE)
Randomly select n rows.
dplyr::slice(iris, 10:15)
Select rows by position.
dplyr::top_n(storms, 2, date)
Select and order top n entries (by group if grouped data).
< Less than != Not equal to
> Greater than %in% Group membership
== Equal to is.na Is NA
<= Less than or equal to !is.na Is not NA
>= Greater than or equal to &,|,!,xor,any,all Boolean operators
Logic in R - ?Comparison, ?base::Logic
dplyr::select(iris, Sepal.Width, Petal.Length, Species)
Select columns by name or helper function.
Helper functions for select - ?select
select(iris, contains("."))
Select columns whose name contains a character string.
select(iris, ends_with("Length"))
Select columns whose name ends with a character string.
select(iris, everything())
Select every column.
select(iris, matches(".t."))
Select columns whose name matches a regular expression.
select(iris, num_range("x", 1:5))
Select columns named x1, x2, x3, x4, x5.
select(iris, one_of(c("Species", "Genus")))
Select columns whose names are in a group of names.
select(iris, starts_with("Sepal"))
Select columns whose name starts with a character string.
select(iris, Sepal.Length:Petal.Width)
Select all columns between Sepal.Length and Petal.Width (inclusive).
select(iris, -Species)
Select all columns except Species.
Learn more with browseVignettes(package = c("dplyr", "tidyr")) • dplyr 0.4.0• tidyr 0.2.0 • Updated: 1/15
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devtools::install_github("rstudio/EDAWR") for data sets
rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/