2014-02-13 useR@HSPH

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library("survival")
## Loading required package: splines

## Load dataset
data(pbc)

## Examine first rows.
head(pbc, n = 10)
##    id time status trt   age sex ascites hepato spiders edema bili chol
## 1   1  400      2   1 58.77   f       1      1       1   1.0 14.5  261
## 2   2 4500      0   1 56.45   f       0      1       1   0.0  1.1  302
## 3   3 1012      2   1 70.07   m       0      0       0   0.5  1.4  176
## 4   4 1925      2   1 54.74   f       0      1       1   0.5  1.8  244
## 5   5 1504      1   2 38.11   f       0      1       1   0.0  3.4  279
## 6   6 2503      2   2 66.26   f       0      1       0   0.0  0.8  248
## 7   7 1832      0   2 55.53   f       0      1       0   0.0  1.0  322
## 8   8 2466      2   2 53.06   f       0      0       0   0.0  0.3  280
## 9   9 2400      2   1 42.51   f       0      0       1   0.0  3.2  562
## 10 10   51      2   2 70.56   f       1      0       1   1.0 12.6  200
##    albumin copper alk.phos    ast trig platelet protime stage
## 1     2.60    156     1718 137.95  172      190    12.2     4
## 2     4.14     54     7395 113.52   88      221    10.6     3
## 3     3.48    210      516  96.10   55      151    12.0     4
## 4     2.54     64     6122  60.63   92      183    10.3     4
## 5     3.53    143      671 113.15   72      136    10.9     3
## 6     3.98     50      944  93.00   63       NA    11.0     3
## 7     4.09     52      824  60.45  213      204     9.7     3
## 8     4.00     52     4651  28.38  189      373    11.0     3
## 9     3.08     79     2276 144.15   88      251    11.0     2
## 10    2.74    140      918 147.25  143      302    11.5     4

## summarize
summary(pbc)
##        id           time          status          trt            age      
##  Min.   :  1   Min.   :  41   Min.   :0.00   Min.   :1.00   Min.   :26.3  
##  1st Qu.:105   1st Qu.:1093   1st Qu.:0.00   1st Qu.:1.00   1st Qu.:42.8  
##  Median :210   Median :1730   Median :0.00   Median :1.00   Median :51.0  
##  Mean   :210   Mean   :1918   Mean   :0.83   Mean   :1.49   Mean   :50.7  
##  3rd Qu.:314   3rd Qu.:2614   3rd Qu.:2.00   3rd Qu.:2.00   3rd Qu.:58.2  
##  Max.   :418   Max.   :4795   Max.   :2.00   Max.   :2.00   Max.   :78.4  
##                                              NA's   :106                  
##  sex        ascites         hepato        spiders         edema      
##  m: 44   Min.   :0.00   Min.   :0.00   Min.   :0.00   Min.   :0.000  
##  f:374   1st Qu.:0.00   1st Qu.:0.00   1st Qu.:0.00   1st Qu.:0.000  
##          Median :0.00   Median :1.00   Median :0.00   Median :0.000  
##          Mean   :0.08   Mean   :0.51   Mean   :0.29   Mean   :0.101  
##          3rd Qu.:0.00   3rd Qu.:1.00   3rd Qu.:1.00   3rd Qu.:0.000  
##          Max.   :1.00   Max.   :1.00   Max.   :1.00   Max.   :1.000  
##          NA's   :106    NA's   :106    NA's   :106                   
##       bili            chol         albumin         copper     
##  Min.   : 0.30   Min.   : 120   Min.   :1.96   Min.   :  4.0  
##  1st Qu.: 0.80   1st Qu.: 250   1st Qu.:3.24   1st Qu.: 41.2  
##  Median : 1.40   Median : 310   Median :3.53   Median : 73.0  
##  Mean   : 3.22   Mean   : 370   Mean   :3.50   Mean   : 97.6  
##  3rd Qu.: 3.40   3rd Qu.: 400   3rd Qu.:3.77   3rd Qu.:123.0  
##  Max.   :28.00   Max.   :1775   Max.   :4.64   Max.   :588.0  
##                  NA's   :134                   NA's   :108    
##     alk.phos          ast             trig          platelet  
##  Min.   :  289   Min.   : 26.4   Min.   : 33.0   Min.   : 62  
##  1st Qu.:  872   1st Qu.: 80.6   1st Qu.: 84.2   1st Qu.:188  
##  Median : 1259   Median :114.7   Median :108.0   Median :251  
##  Mean   : 1983   Mean   :122.6   Mean   :124.7   Mean   :257  
##  3rd Qu.: 1980   3rd Qu.:151.9   3rd Qu.:151.0   3rd Qu.:318  
##  Max.   :13862   Max.   :457.2   Max.   :598.0   Max.   :721  
##  NA's   :106     NA's   :106     NA's   :136     NA's   :11   
##     protime         stage     
##  Min.   : 9.0   Min.   :1.00  
##  1st Qu.:10.0   1st Qu.:2.00  
##  Median :10.6   Median :3.00  
##  Mean   :10.7   Mean   :3.02  
##  3rd Qu.:11.1   3rd Qu.:4.00  
##  Max.   :18.0   Max.   :4.00  
##  NA's   :2      NA's   :6

## Examine dimensions
dim(pbc)
## [1] 418  20

## Examine the type (class) of objects
class(pbc)
## [1] "data.frame"

## assign a variable to a new object
timeTemp <- pbc$time

class(timeTemp)
## [1] "integer"
dim(timeTemp)
## NULL