Introduction to R Packages for Data Management: tidyr and dplyr

Date
May 9, 2016, 9:30 am12:00 pm

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Event Description

This workshop introduces two modern R packages, both written by Hadley Wickham, that provide intuitive tools for handling common data management tasks. The first package, tidyr, provides functions that reshape data so it conforms to a specific “tidy” structure where each variable is saved in its own column, each observations is saved in its own row, and each type of observational unit is stored in a separate table. The second package, dplyr, provides a set of functions (referred to as “verbs”) that allow you to easily subset observations, re-order observations, select specific variables, add new variables, group observations, and summarize groups of observations. 

Presentation
R script and data files