The R-Podcast Episode 4: Data Structures-Introduction

March 25, 2012

(This article was first published on The R-Podcast, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

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!

The following resources are mentioned in this episode:

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, [email protected], + 1-269-849-9780, Twitter @theRcast
49:26 End

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