9/21/2022

Chapter 6 - Tidy data

Data Intake - more examples - see TidyData-Intake.R
- Recoding - translation tables can be very helpful
- From strings to numbers
  - The functions parse_number() and parse_character() make translations
- Dealing with dates using the lubridate package
- Factors or strings
  - Factor is a special data type used to represent categorical data
  - readr:read_csv() will interpret character strings as strings, not as factors
  - read.csv() converts character strings to factors
  - Remember to check the data type for each variable, especially if you are getting odd results
Lab time for coding - complete activites 7 and 8 and then try web scraping some data of interest to you.