You seem to be trying to learn R ... sideways... or backwards, perhaps.
Have you read An Introduction to R[1], included with every copy of the
software? In particular, there are sections on data frames [2] (which
should be read in the context of the discussion on lists, as it
is presented. There is also the discussion of factors [3] where the idea
of using integers to keep track of categorical data is discussed. There
are many other introductory resources as well which would fill you in on
these kinds of basic concepts if you find the ItR too computerish.
No R programmer I have ever met constructs data frames by typing in the
kind of R you showed... that is distinctly characteristic of the
output of the "dput" function, which is completely general and precise in
an R-language sense and useful in reproducing whatever data you have in
your R environment in someone elses environment.
So, one of these might be more typical:
dta1 <- data.frame( Fruit = c( "apple", "banana", "pear", "orange", "kiwi" )
, Color = c( "red", "yellow", "green", "orange", "green" )
, Shape = c( "round", "oblong", "pear", "round", "round" )
, Juice = Juice = c( 1, 0, 0.5, 1, 0 )
)
dta2 <- read.table( text =
"Fruit Color Shape Juice
apple red round 1.0
banana yellow oblong 0.0
pear green pear 0.5
orange orange round 1.0
kiwi green round 0.0
", header = TRUE )
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[1] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html
[2] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html#Data-frames
[3] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html#Factors
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Drake Gossi wrote:
Hello everyone,
Is there any way to create a data.frame from scratch? other than, say, this?
structure(list(Fruit = structure(c(1L, 2L, 5L, 4L, 3L), .Label =
c("apple",
"banana", "kiwi", "orange", "pear"), class = "factor"), Color =
structure(c(3L,
4L, 1L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("green", "orange", "red", "yellow"
), class = "factor"), Shape = structure(c(3L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L), .Label =
c("oblong",
"pear", "round"), class = "factor"), Juice = c(1, 0, 0.5, 1,
0)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c("1", "2", "3", "4",
"5"))
which yields
Fruit Color Shape Juice
1 apple red round 1.0
2 banana yellow oblong 0.0
3 pear green pear 0.5
4 orange orange round 1.0
5 kiwi green round 0.0
I get *that* it works. I just don't know *how* it works, and whether or not
there is another, easier way...
For example,
structure(list(Fruit = structure(c(1L, 2L, 5L, 4L, 3L), .Label =
c("apple", "banana", "kiwi", "orange", "pear") ...
What on earth are these numbers? c(1L, 2L, 5L, 4L, 3L)? and why are they
out of order?
And then why put the fruits out of order? c("apple",
"banana", "kiwi", "orange", "pear")? since that's not a descending order?
since, in the final data.frame, it goes apple, banana, *pear*, *orange*,
kiwi?
So many questions!
Drake
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