Department of Computing
CS-213: Advanced Programming
Class: BSCS-8ABC
Lab 11: Introduction to R Programming
Instructors: Dr. Sidra Sultana and Dr. Sana Qadir
Note: The steps to be completed are labelled as S# and the questions to be answered are
numbered as Q#.
The code required for this lab is in the R_Files-1 folder.
S1: Install R by clicking on download R at https://www.r-project.org/ and following the
instructions.
● Get a copy of the folder R_Files-1 from your instructor. The .r extension is used for
R source/script files.
● Start RGui and open R01_2_1_InstallingR.R as shown below:
● Your window should look something like this:
● Starting from the top of the file, navigate to the beginning of each line (that does not start
with #) and press CTRL+R to run it. Try to figure out what each line of code does.
● Once you are done, use CTRL+L to clear the console.
S2: Install RStudio IDE.
● Download and install the free RStudio Desktop from Download the RStudio IDE
● Open up R01_2_2_RStudio.R
● Take SCREENSHOT 1 - it should show the entire RStudio window (esp. the Plots
pane) when plot(iris) is run.
S3: Install, load, and use the package manager.
● Open up R01_2_3_Packages.R
● Run the line install.packages(“pacman”)
● If you get the following message:
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not
currently installed. Please download and install the
appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
You may need to download and install Rtools from
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ before continuing.
● Once pacman has been installed, run the following two lines:
require(pacman) # Gives a confirmation message.
library(pacman) # No message.
● Confirm pacman has been loaded successfully:
● Run line 21 to install the following commonly used contributed packages using pacman.
dplyr, GGally, ggplot2, ggthemes, ggvis, httr, lubridate,
plotly, rio, rmarkdown, shiny, stringr, tidyr
Note: this line can be run even without loading pacman.
● You should be able to confirm installation and loading of all these contributed packages:
● Take SCREENSHOT 2 - it should show the entire RStudio window and the four
packages beginning with the letter G should be checked in “Packages”.
● Unload the contributed packages, base packages, and clear the console.
S4: Basic graphics.
● The plot () function does basic X-Y plotting in R.
● Open up R01_3_1_Plot().R
● The code in this file examines the iris data frame in the datasets package that
comes with R.
● The iris data frame contains measurement data of the sepal (length and width) and
petal (length and width) for three species of iris.This is a very famous dataset and it is
about a hundred years old. It is a great way of exploring what we can do in R.
source: http://suruchifialoke.com/img/ML/iris.png
● You may run ?plot() to display information about plot() in the Help window.
● Run each line of uncommented code and try to figure out what it does.
● Write a line to create the following plot. Remember to replace <CMS ID> in title with
your own CMS ID. You can use whatever colour you like best. Also remember to include
the axes titles.
● Take SCREENSHOT 3 - it should show the R code used to generate the plot. Your
screenshot should also include your Plots window.
● Write three lines to create the following plot. Remember to replace <CMS ID> in title
with your own CMS ID. You can use whatever colour you like best. Please ensure the
range of values for the x-axis and y-axis are as shown and that the axes intersect at the
origin. The axes labels should also be included.
● Take SCREENSHOT 4 - it should show the R code used to generate the plot. Your
screenshot should also include your Plots window.
● Write three lines to create the following plot. Remember to replace <CMS ID> in title
with your own CMS ID.
Hint: the first plot in the Examples section of the Help window can be modified to
create this plot. Remember to take note of what is happening in the Environment
window.
● Take SCREENSHOT 5 - it should show the R code used to generate the plot. Your
screenshot should also include the Plots and window Environment window.
● You are recommended to copy, run, understand all lines in the Examples section of the
Help window.
SUBMISSION: Instructions
● Convert the following into one PDF file and upload on the LMS submission link by the
due date:
○ Screenshot 1 to 5.
