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Avoid common R mistakes — vectorization traps, NA propagation, factor surprises, and indexing gotchas.

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Avoid common R mistakes — vectorization traps, NA propagation, factor surprises, and indexing gotchas.

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Prerequisites
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Primary doc
SKILL.md

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Version
1.0.0

Documentation

ClawHub primary doc Primary doc: SKILL.md 9 sections Open source page

Vectorization

Loops are slow — use apply(), lapply(), sapply(), or purrr::map() Vectorized functions operate on whole vectors — sum(x) not for (i in x) total <- total + i ifelse() is vectorized — if is not, use ifelse() for vector conditions Column operations faster than row — R is column-major

Indexing Gotchas

R is 1-indexed — first element is x[1], not x[0] x[0] returns empty vector — not error, silent bug Negative index excludes — x[-1] removes first element [[ extracts single element — [ returns subset (list stays list) df[, 1] drops to vector — use df[, 1, drop = FALSE] to keep data frame

NA Handling

NA propagates — 1 + NA is NA, NA == NA is NA Use is.na() to check — not x == NA Most functions need na.rm = TRUE — mean(x) returns NA if any NA present na.omit() removes rows with any NA — may lose data unexpectedly complete.cases() returns logical vector — rows without NA

Factor Traps

Old R converted strings to factors by default — use stringsAsFactors = FALSE or modern R levels() shows categories — but factor values are integers internally Adding new value not in levels gives NA — use factor(x, levels = c(old, new)) as.numeric(factor) gives level indices — use as.numeric(as.character(factor)) for values Dropping unused levels: droplevels() — or factor() again

Recycling

Shorter vector recycled to match longer — c(1,2,3) + c(10,20) gives 11, 22, 13 No error if lengths aren't multiples — just warning, easy to miss Single values recycle intentionally — x + 1 adds 1 to all elements

Data Frames vs Tibbles

Tibble never converts strings to factors — safer defaults Tibble never drops dimensions — df[, 1] stays tibble Tibble prints better — shows type, doesn't flood console as_tibble() to convert — from tibble or dplyr package

Assignment

<- is idiomatic R — = works but avoided in style guides <<- assigns to parent environment — global assignment, usually a mistake -> right assignment exists — rarely used, confusing

Scope

Functions look up in parent environment — can accidentally use global variable Local variable shadows global — same name hides outer variable local() creates isolated scope — variables don't leak out

Common Mistakes

T and F can be overwritten — use TRUE and FALSE always 1:length(x) fails on empty x — gives c(1, 0), use seq_along(x) sample(5) vs sample(c(5)) — different! first gives 1:5 permutation String splitting: strsplit() returns list — even for single string

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