R workshop series: 4. It's the end of base R as you know it

Hello all,

For the first three workshops of the series we've embarked on an R crash course. In it we've dabbled with some essential base R, looked at ways of understanding and solving help messages, and examined ways of importing data from a variety of sources.

The focus of this workshop will be further exploration of other core packages that help comprise the tidyverse.

This workshop will look to:

A: Introduce the tidyr package. We introduced some tidyr functions back in the first workshop. Now we'll return to tidyr and look to expand on what we know with some further examples that will help turn "messy" data into tidy data.

B: dplyr is a powerful package for data transformation. In this part of the workshop we will Introduce the dplyr package. Whether working with your own data, or with data you've been given, you'll often need to create new variables and reorder the data. C: In the last part of the workshop we will explore the other side to dplyr, joining data sets, grouping the data and generating summaries for further analyses. Once we've mastered these tasks, we'll be ready to look at data outputs using ggplot2 next week.

Note: Places this workshop are already allocated. If you wish to be notified of future workshops, send an email to b.palmer@ucc.ie to register your interest