(1) Creating a .csv file in Excel

Read in the data

z <- read.table("Data.csv", header = TRUE, sep=",", stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

Check the data for errors

str()

str(z)
## 'data.frame':    120 obs. of  10 variables:
##  $ ID              : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
##  $ Sample          : chr  "ITS10" "ITS100" "ITS102" "ITS104" ...
##  $ Plot            : int  5 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...
##  $ WarmingTreatment: chr  "control" "warmed" "control" "warmed" ...
##  $ HostSpecies     : chr  "AL" "FT" "PP" "PP" ...
##  $ TissueType      : chr  "Lvs" "Lvs" "Lvs" "Lvs" ...
##  $ CollectionDate  : chr  "September" "June" "June" "June" ...
##  $ DivShann        : num  2.56 1.79 3.47 2.25 3.36 ...
##  $ Richness        : int  29 160 152 165 229 175 47 9 24 6 ...
##  $ Evenness        : num  0.76 0.354 0.691 0.44 0.619 ...

summary()

summary(z)
##        ID            Sample               Plot      WarmingTreatment  
##  Min.   :  1.00   Length:120         Min.   : 1.0   Length:120        
##  1st Qu.: 30.75   Class :character   1st Qu.: 3.0   Class :character  
##  Median : 60.50   Mode  :character   Median : 5.5   Mode  :character  
##  Mean   : 60.50                      Mean   : 5.5                     
##  3rd Qu.: 90.25                      3rd Qu.: 8.0                     
##  Max.   :120.00                      Max.   :10.0                     
##                                                                       
##  HostSpecies         TissueType        CollectionDate        DivShann     
##  Length:120         Length:120         Length:120         Min.   :0.2679  
##  Class :character   Class :character   Class :character   1st Qu.:2.1592  
##  Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Median :2.7622  
##                                                           Mean   :2.6448  
##                                                           3rd Qu.:3.2020  
##                                                           Max.   :4.4158  
##                                                                           
##     Richness        Evenness     
##  Min.   :  6.0   Min.   :0.3091  
##  1st Qu.: 36.5   1st Qu.:0.5719  
##  Median : 97.5   Median :0.6664  
##  Mean   :101.7   Mean   :0.6676  
##  3rd Qu.:153.5   3rd Qu.:0.7673  
##  Max.   :296.0   Max.   :0.9094  
##  NA's   :60      NA's   :60

table()

table(z$Sample)
## 
##   ITS1  ITS10 ITS100 ITS101 ITS102 ITS103 ITS104 ITS105 ITS106 ITS107 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
## ITS108 ITS109  ITS11 ITS110 ITS111 ITS112 ITS113 ITS114 ITS115 ITS116 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
## ITS117 ITS118 ITS119  ITS12 ITS120  ITS13  ITS14  ITS15  ITS16  ITS17 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS18  ITS19   ITS2  ITS20  ITS21  ITS22  ITS23  ITS24  ITS25  ITS26 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS27  ITS28  ITS29   ITS3  ITS30  ITS31  ITS32  ITS33  ITS34  ITS35 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS36  ITS37  ITS38  ITS39   ITS4  ITS40  ITS41  ITS42  ITS43  ITS44 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS45  ITS46  ITS47  ITS48  ITS49   ITS5  ITS50  ITS51  ITS52  ITS53 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS54  ITS55  ITS56  ITS57  ITS58  ITS59   ITS6  ITS60  ITS61  ITS62 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS63  ITS64  ITS65  ITS66  ITS67  ITS68  ITS69   ITS7  ITS70  ITS71 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS72  ITS73  ITS74  ITS75  ITS76  ITS77  ITS78  ITS79   ITS8  ITS80 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS81  ITS82  ITS83  ITS84  ITS85  ITS86  ITS87  ITS88  ITS89   ITS9 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1 
##  ITS90  ITS91  ITS92  ITS93  ITS94  ITS95  ITS96  ITS97  ITS98  ITS99 
##      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1      1
table(z$Plot)
## 
##  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 
## 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
table(z$WarmingTreatment)
## 
## control  warmed 
##      60      60
table(z$HostSpecies)
## 
## AL FT PP 
## 40 40 40
table(z$TissueType)
## 
## Lvs Rts 
##  60  60
table(z$CollectionDate)
## 
##      June September 
##        60        60

tail()

tail(z)
##      ID Sample Plot WarmingTreatment HostSpecies TissueType CollectionDate
## 115 115   ITS9    5          control          AL        Rts      September
## 116 116  ITS91    6           warmed          FT        Rts           June
## 117 117  ITS93    7          control          FT        Rts           June
## 118 118  ITS95    8           warmed          FT        Rts           June
## 119 119  ITS97    9          control          FT        Rts           June
## 120 120  ITS99   10           warmed          FT        Rts           June
##     DivShann Richness Evenness
## 115 3.092677       NA       NA
## 116 3.348968       NA       NA
## 117 2.033130       NA       NA
## 118 2.911970       NA       NA
## 119 2.710575       NA       NA
## 120 2.362769       NA       NA

(2) Working with Regular Expressions

Question 1

I took this:

First String    Second      1.22      3.4
Second          More Text   1.555555  2.2220
Third           x           3         124

And transformed it to this:

First String,Second,1.22,3.4
Second,More Text,1.555555,2.2220
Third,x,3,124

By searching for this:

\s{2,}

And replacing it with this:

,

Question 2

I took this:

Ballif, Bryan, University of Vermont
Ellison, Aaron, Harvard Forest
Record, Sydne, Bryn Mawr

And transformed it to this:

Bryan Ballif (University of Vermont)
Aaron Ellison (Harvard Forest)
Sydne Record (Bryn Mawr)

By searching for this:

(\w+), (\w+), (.+)

And replacing it with this:

\2 \1 (\3)

Question 3

Part 1

I took this:

0001 Georgia Horseshoe.mp3 0002 Billy In The Lowground.mp3 0003 Cherokee Shuffle.mp3 0004 Walking Cane.mp3

And transformed it to this:

0001 Georgia Horseshoe.mp3 
0002 Billy In The Lowground.mp3 
0003 Cherokee Shuffle.mp3 
0004 Walking Cane.mp3

By searching for this:

mp3 

And replacing it with this:

mp3 \n

Part 2

I took this:

0001 Georgia Horseshoe.mp3 
0002 Billy In The Lowground.mp3 
0003 Cherokee Shuffle.mp3 
0004 Walking Cane.mp3

And transformed it to this:

Georgia Horseshoe_0001.mp3 
Billy In The Lowground_0002.mp3 
Cherokee Shuffle_0003.mp3 
Walking Cane_0004.mp3

By searching for this:

(\d+) (.+)[.mp3]{4}

And replacing it with this:

\2_\1.mp3

Question 4

Part 1

I took this:

Camponotus,pennsylvanicus,10.2,44
Camponotus,herculeanus,10.5,3
Myrmica,punctiventris,12.2,4
Lasius,neoniger,3.3,55

And transformed it to this:

C_pennsylvanicus,44
C_herculeanus,3
M_punctiventris,4
L_neoniger,55

By searching for this:

(\w)(\w+),(\w+),(.+),(.+)

And replacing it with this:

\1_\3,\5

Part 2

I took this:

Camponotus,pennsylvanicus,10.2,44
Camponotus,herculeanus,10.5,3
Myrmica,punctiventris,12.2,4
Lasius,neoniger,3.3,55

And transformed it to this:

C_penn,44
C_herc,3
M_punc,4
L_neon,55

By searching for this:

(\w)(\w+),(\w{4})(\w+),(.+),(.+)

And replacing it with this:

\1_\3,\6