Ch04 Basic data management.R

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# R in Action (2nd ed): Chapter 4                         #
# Basic data management                                   #
# requires that the reshape2 and sqldf packages have      #
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# install.packages(c('reshape2', 'sqldf'))                #
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# leadership dataset
manager <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
date <- c("10/24/08","10/28/08","10/1/08","10/12/08","5/1/09")
gender <- c("M","F","F","M","F")
age <- c(32,45,25,39,99)
q1 <- c(5,3,3,3,2)
q2 <- c(4,5,5,3,2)
q3 <- c(5,2,5,4,1)
q4 <- c(5,5,5,NA,2)
q5 <- c(5,5,2,NA,1)
leadership <- data.frame(manager,date,gender,age,q1,q2,q3,q4,q5, 
                         stringsAsFactors=FALSE)


# Listing 4.2 - Creating new variables
mydata<-data.frame(x1 = c(2, 2, 6, 4),
                   x2 = c(3, 4, 2, 8))
mydata$sumx <- mydata$x1 + mydata$x2
mydata$meanx <- (mydata$x1 + mydata$x2)/2
attach(mydata)
mydata$sumx <- x1 + x2
mydata$meanx <- (x1 + x2)/2
detach(mydata)
mydata <- transform(mydata,
                    sumx = x1 + x2,
                    meanx = (x1 + x2)/2)


# Recoding variables
leadership$agecat[leadership$age > 75] <- "Elder"
leadership$agecat[leadership$age >= 55 &
                    leadership$age <= 75] <- "Middle Aged"
leadership$agecat[leadership$age < 55] <- "Young"

leadership <- within(leadership,{
  agecat <- NA
  agecat[age > 75] <- "Elder"
  agecat[age >= 55 & age <= 75] <- "Middle Aged"
  agecat[age < 55] <- "Young" })


# Renaming variables with the plyr package
names(leadership)
names(leadership)[2] <- "testDate"
leadership

library(plyr)
leadership <- rename(leadership,
                     c(manager="managerID", date="testDate"))


# Applying the is.na() function
is.na(leadership[, 6:10])


# Recode 99 to missing for the variable age
leadership[age == 99, "age"] <- NA
leadership


# Excluding missing values from analyses
x <- c(1, 2, NA, 3)
y <- x[1] + x[2] + x[3] + x[4]
z <- sum(x)

x <- c(1, 2, NA, 3)
y <- sum(x, na.rm=TRUE)


# Listing 4.4 - Using na.omit() to delete incomplete observations
leadership
newdata <- na.omit(leadership)
newdata


# Converting character values to dates
mydates <- as.Date(c("2007-06-22", "2004-02-13"))

strDates <- c("01/05/1965", "08/16/1975")
dates <- as.Date(strDates, "%m/%d/%Y")


# Woring with formats
today <- Sys.Date()
format(today, format="%B %d %Y")
format(today, format="%A")


# Calculations with with dates
startdate <- as.Date("2004-02-13")
enddate   <- as.Date("2009-06-22")
enddate - startdate


# Date functions and formatted printing
today <- Sys.Date()
dob <- as.Date("1956-10-12")
difftime(today, dob, units="weeks")


# Listing 4.5 - Converting from one data type to another
a <- c(1,2,3)
a
is.numeric(a)
is.vector(a)
a <- as.character(a)
a
is.numeric(a)
is.vector(a)
is.character(a)


# Sorting a dataset
newdata <- leadership[order(leadership$age),]

attach(leadership)
newdata <- leadership[order(gender, age),]
detach(leadership)

attach(leadership)
newdata <-leadership[order(gender, -age),]
detach(leadership)


# Selecting variables
newdata <- leadership[, c(6:10)]

myvars <- c("q1", "q2", "q3", "q4", "q5")
newdata <-leadership[myvars]

myvars <- paste("q", 1:5, sep="")
newdata <- leadership[myvars]


# Dropping variables
myvars <- names(leadership) %in% c("q3", "q4") 
leadership[!myvars]


# Listing 4.6 - Selecting observations
newdata <- leadership[1:3,]
newdata <- leadership[leadership$gender=="M" &
                        leadership$age > 30,]
attach(leadership)
newdata <- leadership[gender=='M' & age > 30,]
detach(leadership)


# Selecting observations based on dates
startdate <- as.Date("2009-01-01")
enddate <- as.Date("2009-10-31")
newdata <- leadership[which(leadership$date >= startdate &
                              leadership$date <= enddate),]



# Using the subset() function
newdata <- subset(leadership, age >= 35 | age < 24,
                  select=c(q1, q2, q3, q4))
newdata <- subset(leadership, gender=="M" & age > 25,
                  select=gender:q4)


# Listing 4.7 - Using SQL statements to manipulate data frames
library(sqldf)
newdf <- sqldf("select * from mtcars where carb=1 order by mpg",
               row.names=TRUE)
newdf
sqldf("select avg(mpg) as avg_mpg, avg(disp) as avg_disp, gear
from mtcars where cyl in (4, 6) group by gear")