Interactive visualizations in R: creating interactive plots with Shiny

In R, you can use the `shiny` package to create interactive visualizations, such as interactive plots, tables, and dashboards. Here is an example of how to create an interactive plot with Shiny: # Load the shiny package library(shiny) # Define the user interface ui <- fluidPage( titlePanel(“Interactive Plot”), sidebarLayout( sidebarPanel( sliderInput(“slider”, “Number of points:”, 10, … Read more

Web scraping with R: extracting data from websites

In R, you can use various packages to scrape data from websites. Here are some examples: ## Using the `rvest` package The `rvest` package provides functions to scrape data from HTML pages using CSS or XPath selectors. # Load the rvest package library(rvest) # Scrape data from a web page url <- “https://www.example.com” page <- … Read more

Big data in R: using R with Hadoop and Spark

R can be used with Hadoop and Spark to process and analyze big data. Here are some examples: ## Using R with Hadoop To use R with Hadoop, you can use the `rhadoop` package, which provides an interface between R and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and the MapReduce programming model. # Load the … Read more

Parallel computing in R: using multiple cores for faster computations

In R, you can use parallel computing to distribute computations across multiple cores or processors, leading to faster execution times. Here are some examples: ## Parallelizing a loop using the `foreach` package # Load the foreach package library(foreach) # Define a function to simulate a long computation long_computation <- function(x) { Sys.sleep(1) return(x * 2) … Read more

Error handling in R: try-catch statements, assertions

In R, you can handle errors and exceptions using try-catch statements and assertions. ## Try-catch statements # Define a function that may generate an error divide <- function(x, y) { if (y == 0) { stop(“Cannot divide by zero”) } return(x / y) } # Use a try-catch statement to catch the error x <- … Read more