Learn the basics of programming in R through practical data pre-processing tasks. Participants will learn how to use R to import, inspect, clean, transform, summarize, reshape and export messy datasets. Guided demonstrations and hands-on exercises will give attendees practice writing R code using common tools and packages.
Learning Outcomes:
- Introduction to R
- Importing and inspecting data
- Cleaning column names and fixing data types
- Filtering, selecting, mutating and summarizing data with dplyr
- Handling missing values, duplicates and inconsistent categories
- Reshaping data with tidyr
- Exporting cleaned data for analysis
Prerequisites for Hands-On Exercises:
1. Bring your own laptop.
2. Install R.
3. Install RStudio.
Need help installing R or RStudio? Drop in during virtual office hours.
The workshop is presented by Satyar Foroughi.
Read More