Built-in Iris data set
examples/data-frames/built_in_iris.R
library(datasets) #write.table(file="a.txt", iris, sep="\t") iris
examples/data-frames/iris.R
filename = "/home/gabor/Dropbox/Weizmann/R/iris_dataset.txt" # setwd - set working directory # getcwd - get working directory ir = read.table(filename, sep="\t", header=T) head(ir, 3) tail(ir, 3) View(ir) # Capital V !!! (opens a separate view of the data) class(ir) # data.frame dim(ir) # 150 5 dimensions: (rows, columns) ir[2, 3] head(ir) # The indexes on the left hand side are also called "row-names" ir[,1] # access a column by its location ir$seplen # access a column by its name ir1 = ir[, c("seplen", "sepwid")] # dataframe head(ir1) column = ir[, c("seplen")] # numberic vector summary(ir)