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I saw in a tutorial about regression modeling the following command: myFormula <- Species ~ Sepal.Length + Sepal.Width + Petal.Length + Petal.Width What exactly does this command do, and what i...
Configure the language for R: Open or create the .Renviron file in your home directory with the following command: nano ~/.Renviron. Add the following line to set the default language of R to French: LANGUAGE=fr_FR. Restart R: Close and reopen your R session for the changes to take effect.
The infix operator %>% is not part of base R, but is in fact defined by the package magrittr and is heavily used by dplyr . It works like a pipe, hence the reference to Magritte's famous painting The Treachery of Images .
There's definitely a need for a book with a title like "Statistical Software Engineering with R", which would explain R from a programming languages point of view, discuss principles of functional programming and object-oriented programming in R, and really focus on best practices for developing relatively large systems.
in R when accessing a slot we can do x@a to access the slot "a" from object x. we can get the list of ...
@Konrad Rudolph R uses some rules/principles when designing the language and code interpretation for efficiency and usability that not saw in other languages. I believe most people who ask the difference between = and <- is curious about why R has more than one assignment operator compared with other popular Science/math language such as Python.
There are four forms of the extract operator in R: [, [[, $, and @. The fourth form is also known as the slot operator, and is used to extract content from objects built with the S4 object system, also known as a formally defined object in R. Most beginning R users don't work with formally defined objects, so we won't discuss the slot operator ...
I think it is because % has often be associated with the modulus operator in many programming languages. It is the case, e.g., in C, C++, C# and Java, and many other languages which derive their syntax from C (C itself took it from B).
I can’t speculate on R’s reasons for allowing left-to-right assignment. And it’s certainly true that most programming languages (nearly all, in fact) perform only right-to-left assignment. That said, R isn’t entirely on its own. I'm not familiar with any other language that allows the right-assignment semantics.
You can build a compiler or interpreter for any programming language. In general, the language itself is not compiled or interpreted. So, R could be either interpreted or compiled. Nonetheless, in the most common implementation, R is interpreted.