For loops in R: a tutorial on how to simplify your code without compromising performance (CC173)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2021-12-20

For loops get a bad rap in R. In this tutorial, I'll share they syntax for writing a for loop and how we can use a for loop to simplify our code without compromising the performance of our code. This is part of a series of videos demonstrating how to functions from base R to make these data compatible with tools from the tidyverse

You can find my blog post for this episode at https://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2021-12-20-for-loops.

The data were generated in our Kozich et al. 2013 paper (http://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01043-13) using samples from the Schloss et al. 2012 paper (http://doi.org/10.4161/gmic.21008).

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0:00 Creating DRY code with for loops
2:01 Syntax to create a for loop
5:06 Finding patterns in repeated code
10:17 Writing for loop to create distance matrix
11:20 Demonstrating the value of DRY code
13:30 Overcoming concerns about for loops