DATA MINING Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Matricies

A dataset is usually more complex than a simple vector. Indeed, often we have several vectors making up the dataset, and refer to this as a matrix. A matrix is a data structure containing items all of the same data type. We construct a matrix with the XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsmatrix and XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsc functions. Rows and columns of a matrix can have names, and the functions XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionscolnames and XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsrownames will list the current names. However, you can also assign a new list of names to these functions!

> ds <- matrix(c(52, 37, 59, 42, 36, 46, 38, 21, 18, 32, 10, 67), 
               nrow=3, byrow=T)
> colnames(ds) <- c("Low", "Medium", "High","VHigh")
> rownames(ds) <- c("Married","Prev.Married","Single")
> ds
             Low Medium High VHigh
Married       52     37   59    42
Prev.Married  36     46   38    21
Single        18     32   10    67

Of course, manually creating datasets in this way is only useful for small data collections. A slightly easier approach is to manually modify and add to the dataset using a simple spreadsheet-like interface through the XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsedit function or through the XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsfix function which will also assign the results of the edit back to the variable being edited. Note that normally the XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsedit function returns , and thus prints to the screen if it is not assigned, the datasets. To avoid the dataset being printed to the screen, when you do not assign XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsedit to a variable because all you wanted to do was browse the dataset, use the XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsinvisible function.

> ds <- edit(ds)
> fix(ds)
> invisible(edit(ds))

The XnullXXnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)XnullXR functionsR functionscbind function combines each of its arguments, column-wise (the c in the name is for column), into a single data structure:

> age <- c(35, 23, 56, 18)
> gender <- c("m", "m", "f", "f")
> people <- cbind(age, gender)
> people
     age  gender
[1,] "35" "m"
[2,] "23" "m"
[3,] "56" "f"
[4,] "18" "f"

Because the resulting matrix must have elements all of the same data type, we see that the variable age has been transformed into the character data type (since gender could not be so convincingly converted to numeric).

The XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionsrbind function similarly combines its argument, but in a row-wise manner. The result will be the same as if we transpose the matrix with the XnullXR functionsR functions (R function)R functionsR libraries (R library)R functionsR option (R option)R functionsR packages (R package)R functionsDatasets (Dataset)R functionsR functionst function:

> t(people)
       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
age    "35" "23" "56" "18"
gender "m"  "m"  "f"  "f"
> people <- rbind(age, gender)
> people
       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
age    "35" "23" "56" "18"
gender "m"  "m"  "f"  "f"

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