Episode 4: Data Structures - Introduction
Posted on Sunday, Mar 25, 2012 | Category: Podcast
In this episode: Site updates, additional screencasts about R from other sites, listener feedback, and discussion on the fundamental data structures for R: vectors, matrices, lists, and data frames. The R code discussed in this episode is available in our GitHub repository, see the show notes for details. Leave us a voicemail a +1-269-849-9780, or send an email or audio comment to theRcast[at]gmail.com. Thanks for listening!
Show Notes
- Our Google Plus page: http://goplus.us/rpodcast
- R Twotorials: http://www.twotorials.com
- Stats Makes Me Cry: http://www.statsmakemecry.com
- RSeek: http://www.rseek.org
- R Reference Card: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf
- R script used in this episode: https://github.com/thercast/data-structures/blob/master/data-structures-introduction.R
- Theme music provided by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org
- The Closing theme is entitled Crysis Crystal and provided by K-wix from the Mega Man 9: Back in Blue album at ocremix.org
Episode 4 Time Stamps
00:00 The R-Podcast #004 Data Structures-Introduction
00:31 Introduction
01:56 Google Plus info
03:10 Other screencasts about R
05:23 Listener Feedback
08:57 Data Structures
10:40 Vectors
18:30 Matrices
24:17 Lists
31:30 Data Frames
41:36 R Reference Card
43:52 Wrapping up: subscribe to the podcast, theRcast@gmail.com, + 1-269-849-9780, Twitter @theRcast
49:26 End
Hosts
Eric Nantz
Eric Nantz is a principal research scientist at a large life sciences company, creating innovative analytical pipelines and capabilities supporting study designs and analyses. Outside of his day job, Eric is passionate about connecting with the R community as the creator/host of the R-Podcast, Shiny Developer Series, and a curator / podcast host for the R Weekly project. Plus, he likes to share his adventures with R and general computing on Twitch livestreams at twitch.tv/rpodcast.