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How to convert a list to JSON in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 12:23:45

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To convert a list to JSON, we can use toJSON function of jsonlite package. For example, if we have a list called LIST then it can be converted to a JSON by using the command toJSON(LIST, pretty=TRUE, auto_unbox=TRUE). We need to make sure that the package jsonlite is loaded in ... Read More

How to randomly sample rows from an R data frame using sample_n?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 12:23:14

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To randomly sample rows from an R data frame using sample_n, we can directly pass the sample size inside sample_n function of dplyr package. For example, if we have data frame called df then to create a random sample of 5 rows in df can be done by using the ... Read More

How to add a variable description in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 12:16:47

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To add a variable description in R, we can use comment function and if we want to have a look at the description then structure call of the data frame will be used. For example, if we have a data frame say df that contains a column x then we ... Read More

How to format all decimal places in an R vector and data frame?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 12:16:25

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To format all decimal places in an R vector and data frame, we can use formattable function of formattable package where we can specify the number of digits after decimal places. For example, if we have a numerical vector say x then the values in x can be formatted to ... Read More

How to create multiple bar plots for varying categories with same width bars using ggplot2 in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 12:14:11

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To create multiple bar plots for varying categories with same width bars using ggplot2, we would need to play with width argument inside geom_bar function to match the width of the bars in each bar plot. The best way to do this would be setting the larger ones to 0.25 ... Read More

How to find the high leverage values for a regression model in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 12:08:26

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To find the high leverage values for a regression model, we first need to find the predicted values or hat values that can be found by using hatvalues function and then define the condition for high leverage and extract them. For example if we have a regression model say M ... Read More

How to apply multiple AND conditions to a data frame in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 12:04:04

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To apply multiple conditions to a data frame, we can use double and sign that is &&. For example, if we have a data frame called df that contains three columns say x, y, z and we want to add a value to all columns if first element in z ... Read More

How to create empty bar plot in base R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 11:59:47

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To create a bar plot in base R, we can use the function barplot and pass the vector or column of the data frame for which we want to create the bar plot but the bars created by using barplot by default has grey color. Therefore, if we want to ... Read More

How to check if a time series is stationary in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 11:57:19

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To check if a time series is stationary, we can use Dickey-Fuller test using adf.test function of tseries package. For example, if we have a time series object say TimeData then to check whether this time series is stationary or not we can use the command adf.test(TimeData).Example1 Live Demox1Read More

How to deal with Error: stat_count() can only have an x or y aesthetic in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 06-Mar-2021 11:49:42

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To deal with Error: stat_count() can only have an x or y aesthetic, we need to pass the stat="identity" argument inside geom_bar function. Since we do not pass the count for bars and a bar graph can only contain only count variable, hence stat="identity" is needed so that geom_bar considers ... Read More

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