Week 7: Data wrangling

Reading

• Jenny Bryan, What They Forgot to Teach You about R, Chapters 1–4.
• Malcolm Barrett, Why should I use the here package when I’m already using projects?
• Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund, R for Data Science (2nd Edition): Chapters 3, 5, 7, and 19.
  • Go through these chapters to acquaint yourself with what we will be working on this week during the seminar.
• Read through the Getting started tutorial for quarto.

Assignment

• Bring your data to work on in class.

Activities

• Workshop: Organizing your work in projects
• Workshop: Data wrangling
• Workshop: Introduction to quarto

Data

• SAFI data
• readr example data
• Letters data
• Letters location data

Resources

• Data Carpentry - R for Social Scientists, Data Wrangling with dplyr
• Data Carpentry - R for Social Scientists, Data Wrangling with tidyr
• dplyr: Column-wise operations
• dplyr: Row-wise operations
• dplyr: Joins - Two-table verbs
• tidyr: Tidy Data
• tidyr: Pivoting
• My notes on the tidyverse