Primitives (=NetLogo commands) of the R extension of NetLogo.

Primitive Desciption Example
clear Clears the R workspace, deletes all variables. r:clear
eval Evaluates the submitted string in R, used for R function without a return value. ;; create new vector x in R with a sequence from 1 to 10:
r:eval "x <- seq(1,10)"
;; load an R package:
r:eval "library(spatstat)"
get Gets a value from R; either submits a string including an R function with return value, or gets the value of a variable; return values can be strings, numbers, booleans, lists, or a list of lists. ;; get value of variable x:
r:eval "x <- seq(1,10)"
print r:get "x"
;; save ten random values from binominal distribution in new local variable b:
let b r:get "rbinom(10,1,0.5)"
print b
put Creates a new variable in R with value(s) from NetLogo; submitted values/variables can be strings, numbers, booleans, or lists (NetLogo lists become R vectors, to create R lists see putlist). ;; create an R variable r_var containing the value of NetLogo variable b:
let b 12.95
r:put "r_var" b

;; create an R list r_turt containing the size of all turtles:
r:put "r_turt" [size] of turtles
putagent Creates a list in R from variables of a set of NetLogo agents; collections of agent-variables can be stored in a single named list. ;; create an R list r_patch containing the pxcor of patches:
r:putagent "r_patch" patches "pxcor"
;; create an R list r_turtles containing the values of the variables who, size and colour of the turtles (agentset) with a value of who less than five:
(r:putagent "r_turtles" turtles with [who < 5] "who" "size" "color")
print r:get "r_turtles"
print r:get "r_turtles$who"
putagentdf Same as putagent, but creates an R data-frame instead of a list because many R functions requires data frames as input. ;; create an R data-frame r_patch containing the pxcor and pycor of patches and show that r_patch is a data-frame:
(r:putagentdf "r_patch" patches "pxcor" "pycor")
print r:get "class(r_patch)"
putlist Creates a new R list based on the submitted NetLogo variables and values. ;; create an R list r_list containing the values of NetLogo list b:
let b [12.95 10 11.3]
r:putlist "r_list" b
;; create an R list r_list with three columns:
(r:putlist "r_list" b [3 5] 4.5)
print r:get "r_list[1]"
putnamedlist Same as putlist, but creates a named R list, i.e. the columns of the list can be called via their names. ;; create a named R list r_list with three columns:
(r:putnamedlist "r_list" "col1" b "col2" [3 5 2] "col3" 4.5)
print r:get "r_list$col1"
putdataframe Same as putnamedlist, but creates an R data-frame instead of a list because many R functions require data frames as input. ;; create an R data-frame r_df with 3 columns:
(r:putdataframe "r_df" "col1" [4 2 5] "col2" [3 5 2] "col3" 4.5)
print r:get "class(r_df)"