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R for Data Science Cookbook (n)

By : Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
Book Image

R for Data Science Cookbook (n)

By: Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

Overview of this book

This cookbook offers a range of data analysis samples in simple and straightforward R code, providing step-by-step resources and time-saving methods to help you solve data problems efficiently. The first section deals with how to create R functions to avoid the unnecessary duplication of code. You will learn how to prepare, process, and perform sophisticated ETL for heterogeneous data sources with R packages. An example of data manipulation is provided, illustrating how to use the “dplyr” and “data.table” packages to efficiently process larger data structures. We also focus on “ggplot2” and show you how to create advanced figures for data exploration. In addition, you will learn how to build an interactive report using the “ggvis” package. Later chapters offer insight into time series analysis on financial data, while there is detailed information on the hot topic of machine learning, including data classification, regression, clustering, association rule mining, and dimension reduction. By the end of this book, you will understand how to resolve issues and will be able to comfortably offer solutions to problems encountered while performing data analysis.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
R for Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing fast aggregation with a data.table


Another advantage of a data.table is that we can easily aggregate data without the help of additional packages. In this recipe, we will illustrate how to perform data aggregation using data.table.

Getting ready

Ensure that you completed the Enhancing a data.frame with a data.table recipe to load purchase_view.tab and purchase_order.tab as both a data.frame and a data.table into your R environment.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to perform data aggregation over data.table:

  1. First, we can average the price of orders in total:

    > order.dt[,mean(na.omit(Price))]
    [1] 2012.119
    
  2. Next, we can average the amount of orders per user:

    > mean.price.by.user <- order.dt[,mean(na.omit(Price)), User]
    > head(mean.price.by.user)
               User      V1
    1:   U312622727  934.00
    2:   U239012343 1298.75
    3: U10007697373  247.00
    4:   U296328517  745.00
    5:   U300884570  249.00
    6:   U451050374 1780.00
    
  3. In order to name the aggregated data, we can surround...