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Data types, exercises

Source: vignettes/data_types_exercises.Rmd
data_types_exercises.Rmd

Exercises with vectors

  1. Create the following vectors: 1, 1, 3, 4, 5 and 2, 2, 5, 4, 1
  2. Find the minimum of both vectors
  3. Find the common minimum of the vectors
  4. Summarize the vectors element-wise and all elements. 4 create the element-wise squere root of the element-wise sum of the vectors.
  5. order both vectors in decreasing order
  6. find the elements that are duplicated in the vectors.
  7. find out which element of vector one is in vector 2.
  8. Create one vector with 100 random numbers, between 1 and 100, with the possibility to repeat (hint: sample function)
  9. find out, how many elements are equal to three.
  10. do it again - random numbers
  11. do it with running the set.seed(23)
  12. change all the elements that are equal to three to 4. check your results.
  13. create named vectors of the two first vecotrs. Order the second one as the first, based on the names (match)
  14. combine the two vectors
  15. Is there any element of vector two that is larger than the respective element of vector 1?
  16. Is there any element of vector two that is larger than the the largest element of vector 1?

Exercises with data frames

  1. load the iris dataset (data)
  2. exctract the Petal.Lenght column as a vector. Do it by column name and column index as well.
  3. create a data frame with the columns Sepal.Width, Sepal.Length and Species colums.
  4. Get the maximum Petal.With for the Species setosa.
  5. Get the second element of the Sepal.Width column
  6. How many setosa are there with the Petal.Width of 0.2

Exercises with regular expressions 

dataset <- data.frame(Patient.ID=c("normal_01", "normal_02", "normal_03", "tumor_01", "tumor_02", "tumor_02"), 
                      Sentrix.position=c("A01B01", "A01B02", "A016A01", "B02A02", "C01D02", "C02C01"), Treatment=c("Treated", "Treated", "Not treated", "Treated", "Treated", "Not treated"), value=c(3.25, 3.67, 4.26, 6.24, 5.78, 7.32), row.names = c("Sample1", "Sample2", "Sample3", "Sample4", "Sample5", "Sample6"))

dataset
##         Patient.ID Sentrix.position   Treatment value
## Sample1  normal_01           A01B01     Treated  3.25
## Sample2  normal_02           A01B02     Treated  3.67
## Sample3  normal_03          A016A01 Not treated  4.26
## Sample4   tumor_01           B02A02     Treated  6.24
## Sample5   tumor_02           C01D02     Treated  5.78
## Sample6   tumor_02           C02C01 Not treated  7.32
  1. Create a column with sample type (tumor or normal)
  2. table treatment versus sample type
  3. add an "_" to the sample names: sample_3
  4. summarize all values that are coming from normal samples
  5. change all “A”s in the Sentrix.position column to “E”s.
  6. change all “E”s back to “A”s, if they appear second. Do it as generalized as possible.

Exercises with factors

  1. check if there are any factors in dataset.
  2. Turn the sample type column into factors.
  3. Add an “unknown” level
  4. Order the levels, so the first is “tumor”.
  5. Order them according the the mean of value in decreasing order.

Lists

  1. Create a list with 5 elements, each different class.
  2. Create a list with one vector, one list, one matrix and one number. Name the list elements. Access the third element by name.
  3. Delete the second element of the above list.
  4. Add a data frame to the end of the list. Access the 3rd row, 2nd column element of that data frame.
  5. Create a list with two elements, where each element has two sublists.