List of R functions

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This page contains listings of some R functions and commands by category.

Basics

Some basic R functions
function name functionality
c() "combine" elements to a vector
array() creates arrays
data.frame() creates data.frames
list() creates lists
mean() mean of the elements of the input vector
sd() standard deviation of the elements of the input vector
cor() correlation
quantile() quantiles
read.table() reads delimited text files
write.table() writes delimited text files
save() save R objects
load() load R objects
apply(), tapply(), lapply() functions for applying functions over set margins, apply is for arrays, tapply for data.frames and lapply for lists
merge() merges two data.frames, equivalent of SQL joins
order() sorts data by given factors, output is an indexing vector
library() loads packages

Workspace and help

Some basic R functions
function name functionality
getwd() get working directory
setwd(dir) set working directory to dir
help(topic), ?topic get help on topic, usually function name
help.search("keyword") search for help
help.start() HTML help start page
demo() list available demonstrations
save(..., file), load(file) save and load objects
savehistory(file), loadhistory(file) save and load command history
source(file) execute commands from file
list.files(dir), dir(dir) list files in directory dir
q() quit R

Statistical tests

Statistical tests
function name functionality
t.test en:Student's t-test
aov en:Analysis of variance