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Question:

How to install ISLR R Package on Ubuntu 14.04?

I am currently reading a book: "An Introduction to Statistical Learning"

I found it at the URL listed below:

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

The book has a companion R package which I just installed on my Ubuntu Laptop.

I started by creating a folder for the R package:

mkdir -p ~/ks/b/hastie/rpkgs
cd       ~/ks/b/hastie/

Next I created a script named demoISLR.r with a few lines of R syntax:


# demoISLR.r

# I should run this syntax inside R (once):
# install.packages("ISLR", lib="rpkgs", repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")

# Now I can do this in my scripts:

# Next, tell this script where it is:
.libPaths("rpkgs")

# Now I can use it

library(ISLR)

myauto = Auto
summary(myauto)

I started R and ran this command from the R command line:

install.packages("ISLR", lib="rpkgs", repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")

I exited R and ran this shell command:

R -f insISLR.r

It worked well and I saw this:


dan@nia111:~/ks/b/hastie $ 
dan@nia111:~/ks/b/hastie $ 
dan@nia111:~/ks/b/hastie $ R -f demoISLR.r 

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) -- "Pumpkin Helmet"
Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> # demoISLR.r
> 
> # I should run this syntax inside R (once):
> # install.packages("ISLR", lib="rpkgs", repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")
> 
> # Now I can do this in my scripts:
> 
> # Next, tell this script where it is:
> .libPaths("rpkgs")
> 
> # Now I can use it
> 
> library(ISLR)
> 
> myauto = Auto
> summary(myauto)
      mpg          cylinders      displacement     horsepower        weight    
 Min.   : 9.00   Min.   :3.000   Min.   : 68.0   Min.   : 46.0   Min.   :1613  
 1st Qu.:17.00   1st Qu.:4.000   1st Qu.:105.0   1st Qu.: 75.0   1st Qu.:2225  
 Median :22.75   Median :4.000   Median :151.0   Median : 93.5   Median :2804  
 Mean   :23.45   Mean   :5.472   Mean   :194.4   Mean   :104.5   Mean   :2978  
 3rd Qu.:29.00   3rd Qu.:8.000   3rd Qu.:275.8   3rd Qu.:126.0   3rd Qu.:3615  
 Max.   :46.60   Max.   :8.000   Max.   :455.0   Max.   :230.0   Max.   :5140  
                                                                               
  acceleration        year           origin                      name    
 Min.   : 8.00   Min.   :70.00   Min.   :1.000   amc matador       :  5  
 1st Qu.:13.78   1st Qu.:73.00   1st Qu.:1.000   ford pinto        :  5  
 Median :15.50   Median :76.00   Median :1.000   toyota corolla    :  5  
 Mean   :15.54   Mean   :75.98   Mean   :1.577   amc gremlin       :  4  
 3rd Qu.:17.02   3rd Qu.:79.00   3rd Qu.:2.000   amc hornet        :  4  
 Max.   :24.80   Max.   :82.00   Max.   :3.000   chevrolet chevette:  4  
                                                 (Other)           :365  
> 
> 
dan@nia111:~/ks/b/hastie $ 
dan@nia111:~/ks/b/hastie $ 
dan@nia111:~/ks/b/hastie $

The above output shows that I have access to some data inside ISLR called Auto.

This data is about cars made in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Also the above output shows the behavior of a useful R function called summary() which can display aggregated calculations of collections of either strings or numbers.

For example, summary() shows the minimum year is 70 and the maximum year is 82.

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