How to create a subset based on levels of a character column in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
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In R programming, mostly the columns with string values can be either represented by character data type or factor data type. For example, if we have a column Group with four unique values as A, B, C, and D then it can be of character or factor with four levels. If we want to take the subset of these columns then subset function can be used. Check out the example below.Consider the below data frame −Exampleset.seed(888) Grp

How to visualize two categorical variables together in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
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The categorical variables can be easily visualized with the help of mosaic plot. In a mosaic plot, we can have one or more categorical variables and the plot is created based on the frequency of each category in the variables. To create a mosaic plot in base R, we can use mosaicplot function. The categories that have higher frequencies are displayed by a bigger size box and the categories that have less frequency are displayed by smaller size box.Consider the below data frame −Examplex1

How to set a level of a factor column in an R data frame to NA?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
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In data analysis, we often face inappropriate data and hence the data analysis becomes difficult. An example of inappropriate data is reading missing values with a different value by naming them as Missing or Not Available. It can be done by using below syntax −Syntaxlevels(“data_frame_name”$”Column_name”)[levels(“data_frame_name”$”Column_name”=="Missing"]

How to plot values with log scales on x and y axis or on a single axis in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
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We can plot numerical values in R with many scales and that includes log scale as well. Also, it is possible to plot the values with log scales on both the axes. In base R, the best way to do this is defining the axes values with decimal representation as shown in the below examples with well-defined log.Consider the below vector −Exampleset.seed(555) x

How to repeat a column of a data frame and join it with another data frame in R by rows?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 22:50:52

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Suppose we have a data frame df1 that contains 5 columns and another data frame df2 that contains only column but the data type of the columns in both the data frames is same. Now we might want to add the column of the second data frame starting at the end of the rows of the first data frame by creating the same number of columns as in first data frame. This might be required by researchers to understand the impact of an external variable on the result of the analysis and it can be done with the help of ... Read More

How to find the position of one or more values in a vector into another vector that contains same values in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 22:50:52

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Finding the position of one of more values that are common in two vectors can be easily done with the help of match function. The match function will match the values in first and second vector then return the index or position of these common values in second vector.Exampleset.seed(145) x1

How to extract odds ratio of intercept and slope coefficient from simple logistic model in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 22:50:52

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To create the simple logistic model, we need to use glm function with family = binomial because the dependent variable in simple logistic model or binomial logistic model has two categories, if there are more than two categories then the model is called as multinomial logistic model. If we want to extract the odds ratio of slope and intercept from the simple logistic model then exp function needs to be used with model object as shown in the below examples.Exampleset.seed(999) x1

How to change column names to capital letters from lower case or vice versa in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 22:50:52

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Mostly, we get data that contain column names in lowercase or just first letter is in upper case. If we want to convert those column names to all capital letter words or uppercase then toupper function can be used to the names of the columns. This can be done by using the below syntax −Syntaxnames(“data_frame_name”)

How to find the rank of a vector elements in R from largest to smallest?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 22:50:52

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To find the rank of a vector of elements we can use rank function directly but this will result in ranks from smallest to largest. For example, if we have a vector x that contains values 1, 2, 3 in this sequence then the rank function will return 1 2 3. But if we want to get ranks from largest to smallest then it would be 3 2 1 and it can be done in R as rank(-x).Examplex1

How to check whether a string is in lowercase or uppercase in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 22:50:52

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We can use str_detect function to check whether a single string or a vector of strings is in lowercase or uppercase. Along with str_detect function, we need to use either upper or lower to check whether the string is in lowercase or uppercase and the output will be returned in TRUE or FALSE form, if the string will be in lowercase and we pass lower with str_detect function then the output will be TRUE and vice-versa.Examplex1

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