LIS 4370 – Quant Knot

LIS 4370 R Programming: Introducing protein8k

Over the past month or so I have been working with Dr. Alon Friedman to develop a package that can handle protein data. The result of these efforts is the protein8k package which can be found on my GitHub here. In this post I will be walking through and briefly…

By Simon Liles April 25, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: R Markdown

One of my favorite things about using R and RStudio, is how versatile the tools are. Not everything is about writing scripts to do lots of work. Sometimes you want to write documentation, reports, or whatever else you may want to write. Sometimes those documents are very closely related to…

By Simon Liles April 4, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Debugging

Debugging is a critical skill for any programmer. Not very many enjoy it, the process often involves lots of intense googling, reading help pages and incomplete documentation, and occasionally the sacrificing of chickens. This week I have been given a chunk of code that contains a deliberate bug. You can…

By Simon Liles March 28, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Building my Own R Package

Recently I have started building my own R Package as a part of a project with my professor, Dr. Friedman. The project involves visual analytics of proteins and requires we build our own R package. The project is still in the very early stages, so the package is also still…

By Simon Liles March 20, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Visualization in R

One of the best parts of R is the ease at which visualizations of data can be created. Beyond the base library there are many packages that make visualization a powerful tool, such as lattice and ggplot2. For a while now I have been learning ggplot2 and I have become…

By Simon Liles March 14, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Input and Output

One of the most important aspects to any program is the ability to take in data, and after doing its process, saving the data. This is generally done through the input and output libraries of a programming language. In JAVA, it is done with the java.io library. In the R…

By Simon Liles March 7, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: R Objects, S3 vs S4

This week was all about the Object Oriented side to R. To be honest, in the last 6 months that I have been working with the language, this is the first time that I have really gone into detail with R and Object Oriented Programming. I have used object oriented…

By Simon Liles February 27, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: More Matrices!

Matrices and working with matrices can be fun. While a lot of data science could be done without doing crazy math with matrices, there is a lot of complex and interesting analysis that is difficult without the use of them. Thus it is good to get plenty of practice using…

By Simon Liles February 19, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Matrices

This week we reviewed matrices. To be honest, when I first started learning R, I thought that this data structure was not very useful, the data frame can be used for a lot more data. However recently in LIS 4761 Intro to Data and Text Mining, I have been learning…

By Simon Liles February 14, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Module 4 Programming Structure

This week I was given a set of data which is expressed in the table below. For the R code I used this week you can find it on my GitHub here or follow the link at the bottom of this post. The data set below represents 10 patients that…

By Simon Liles February 7, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work