Muhammad Imdad Ullah

Student and Instructor of Statistics and business mathematics. Completed my Ph.D. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. l like Applied Statistics, Mathematics and Statistical Computing. Statistical and Mathematical software used is SAS, STATA, GRETL, EVIEWS, R, SPSS, VBA in MS-Excel. Like to use type-setting LaTeX for composing Articles, thesis, etc.

Save and Load RData Workspace

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In this post, we will learn about Save and Load RData Workspace

How to Save Work in R Language

Question: Can I save my work in R Language?
Answer: R language facilitates saving one’s R work.

Question: How do you save work done in R?
Answer: All of the objects and functions that are created (your R workspace) can be saved in a file “.RData” by using the “save()” function or the “save.image()” function. It is important that when saving R work in a file, remember to include the “.RData” extension.

save(file = "d:/filename.RData")
save.image("d:/filename.RData")

Workspace in R Language

Question: Is there an alternative to save workspace in R?
Answer: Yes! You can also save the workspace using the file menu. For this, click the File menu and then click Save Workspace. You will see the dialog box, browse to the folder where you want to save the file and provide the file name of your own choice.

Save and Load .RData

Question: How one can access the saved work, while work is saved using “save.image()” function?
Answer: The “load()” function can be used to load a .RData file.

load ("d:/filename.RData")

Question: Is there any other alternative to load the workspace in R?
Answer: The .RData file can be accessed through the file menu. To access the file click File and then load workspace. A dialog box will appear, browse to the folder where you saved the .RData file and click open.

Save and Load RData Workspace

Saving Rhistory

Question: How do one can save all the commands that are used in an R session?
Answer: Saving R commands used in an R session means you want to save the history of your R session in an “.Rhistory” file by using the “history()” function. It is important to include the “.Rhistory” extension when saving the file at a different path.

history("d:/filename.Rhistory")

Question: Can commands in the R session be saved through the File menu?
Answer: Yes, the command in the R session be saved through the file menu. For this click File and then save history. A dialog box will appear, browse to the folder where you want to save the file (that will contain R commands in a session) and provide the file name of your own choice.

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Handling Missing Values in R: A Quick Guide

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The article is about Handling Missing Values in R Language.

Question: What are the differences between missing values in R and other Statistical Packages?

Answer: Missing values (NA) cannot be used in comparisons, as already discussed in the previous post on missing values in R. In other statistical packages (software) a “missing value” is assigned to some code either very high or very low in magnitude such as 99 or -99 etc. These coded values are considered as missing and can be used to compare to other values and other values can be compared to missing values.

In R language NA values are used for all kinds of missing data, while in other packages, missing strings and missing numbers are represented differently, for example, empty quotations for strings, and periods, large or small numbers. Similarly, non-NA values cannot be interpreted as missing while in other package systems, missing values are designated from other values.

Handling Missing Values in R

Question: What are NA options in R?
Answer: In the previous post on missing values, I introduced is.na() function as a tool for both finding and creating missing values. The is.na() is one of several functions built around NA. Most of the other functions for missing values (NA) are options for na.action(). The possible na.action() settings within R are:

  • na.omit() and na.exclude(): These functions return the object with observations removed if they contain any missing (NA) values. The difference between these two functions na.omit() and na.exclude() can be seen in some prediction and residual functions.
  • na.pass(): This function returns the object unchanged.
  • na.fail(): This function returns the object only if it contains no missing values.

To understand these NA options use the following lines of code.

getOption("na.action")

(m <- as.data.frame(matrix(c(1 : 5, NA), ncol=2)))
na.omit(m)
na.exclude(m)
na.fail(m)
na.pass(m)
Handling Missing Values in R Language

Note that it is wise to investigate the missing values in your data set and also make use of the help files for all functions you are willing to use for handling missing values. You should be either aware of and comfortable with the default treatments (handling) of missing values or specifying the treatment of missing values you want for your analysis.

FAQs about Missing Values in R

  1. What is meant by a missing value?
  2. How one can handle missing values in R?
  3. What is NA in R?
  4. How one can identify missing values in R?
  5. What is is.na() function?
  6. What is the use of na.omit() function in R?
  7. Why it is importance of investigate missing values before performing any data analysis?
Handling Missing values in R

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Matrix in R Language (2015): Key Secrets

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The matrix is an important data type in R language similar to the data frame. It has two dimensions as the arrangement of elements is in rows and columns.

Matrix In R Language

Question: What is a matrix in R Language?
Answer: In R language matrices are two-dimensional arrays of elements all of which are of the same type, for example, numbers, character strings, or logical values.

Matrices may be constructed using the built-in function “matrix”, which reshapes its first argument into a matrix having a specified number of rows as the second argument and a number of columns as the third matrix.

Creating a Matrix in R Language

Question: Give an example of how the matrix is constructed in R language.
Answer: A 3 by 3 matrix (3 rows and 3 columns) matrix may be constructed such as:

matrix(1:9, 3, 3)
matrix(c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), 3, 3)
matrix(runif(9), 3,3)

First, two commands construct a matrix of 9 elements having 3 rows and 3 columns consisting of numbers from 1 up to 9. The third command makes a matrix of 3 rows and 3 columns with random numbers from a uniform distribution.

Question: How the matrix elements are filled?
Answer: A matrix is filled by columns, unless the optional argument byrow is set to TRUE as an argument in matrix command, for example

matrix(1:9, 3, 3, byrow = TRUE)

Question: Can the matrix be stored in R?
Answer: Any matrix can be stored in R such as

m <- matrix(1:9, 3, 3)
mymatrix <- matrix( rnorm(16), nrow=4 )
Matrix in R Language

Matrices are stored in “m” and “mymatrix” objects. The second command constructs a matrix having 16 elements with 4 rows from a normal distribution having mean 0 and variance 1.

Attributes of Matrix Object in R

Question: What is the use of the dim command in R?
Answer: The dim (dimension) is an attribute of the matrix in R language, which tells the number of rows and the number of columns of a matrix, for example,

dim(mymatrix)

This will result in output showing 4  4, meaning 4 rows and 4 column matrix.

Question: Can we name rows of a matrix in R Language?
Answer: Yes in R language we can name rows of a matrix according to one’s requirements, such as

rownames(mymatrix) &lt;- c("x1", "x2", "x3", "x4")
mymatrix

Question: Can column names be changed or updated in R?
Answer: The procedure is the same as changing the column name. For this purpose colnames command is used, for example

colnames(mymatrix)&lt;-c("A", "B", "C", "D")
mymatrix

Question: What is the purpose of the attributes command for the matrix in R Language?
Answer: The attributes function can be used to get information about the dimension of the matrix and dimnames (dimension names). For example;

attributes(mymatrix)

In summary, the primary function for creating a matrix in R language is matrix(). It takes a few arguments:

  • data: This is a vector containing the elements for the matrix.
  • nrow: The number of rows in the matrix.
  • ncol: The number of columns in the matrix.

FAQs about Matrices in R

  1. How to create a matrix in R?
  2. How elements are filled in R?
  3. How to convert a data object to a matrix object in R?
  4. How different attributes of a matrix in R can be checked?
  5. How matrices can be stored in a variable?
  6. How one can name the rows and columns of a matrix in R?
  7. What is the difference between dim and dimnames commands?
  8. How one can create a matrix of order 3 by 3 (3 rows and 3 columns) with elements from a probability Distribution.
  9. What is the primary function of matrix() function in R Language.

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