Stataistics for Lunch: Tidying Data

Drs. S. Ravichandran and Randy Johnson

This workshop will cover the following topics (see this summary of material you should be comfortable with):

• Tidyverse Basics
  • Tibbles
    • Why tibbles?
    • Working with tibbles
    • Examples and exercises
  • Importing Data
    • Comments and metadata
    • Examples and exercises
• Dates, Times, and Regular Expressions
  • Dates and Times
    • Base R
    • lubridate
    • Arithmetic
    • Exercises
  • Regular Expressions
    • Definition
    • Find and Replace
    • Exercises
• Reproducible Research
  • Use of R Markdown
    • R Markdown basics
    • R Markdown creation
    • Code chunks
    • Tables
    • Knitting an Rmd file
• Open time for questions
  • You may work on the data set provided or bring your own data