July 2025
Beginner
464 pages
9h 31m
English
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Chapter 20
Ten Tips for Excel Émigrés
IN THIS CHAPTER
Defining a vector and naming a range
Operating on vectors and ranges
Importing a table from Excel into R
Excel, the most widely used spreadsheet program, has an impressive array of statistical analysis tools, which many people use. (And believe me, no one is happier about that than I am!)
If you’re one of those people and you need a bit of help transitioning to R, this chapter is for you. I point out similarities and differences that might help you make the leap.
Defining a Vector in R Is Like Naming a Range in Excel
Here’s a standard, everyday garden-variety vector in R:
x <- c(15,16,17,18,19,20)
If you’re used to naming arrays in Excel, you’ve already done something like this. Figure 20-1 shows a spreadsheet with these numbers in cells F2 through F7 and headed by x in F1. The figure also shows the New Name dialog box that opens when you highlight F2 through F7, right-click, and choose Define Name from the menu that pops up. Clicking OK defines x as the name of that range, just as the R statement creates the vector x.
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