Looping through data

Looping is automating a multi-step process by organizing sequences of actions or ‘batch’ processes and by grouping the parts that need to be repeated.

During this meetup Brian Kuns will cover looping (base-R) and "data-wrangling" using dplyr and tidyr. If there's time, we will make a graph or two using ggplot2. The data we will be using is farm yield data at a country level from FAOSTAT. We will go through the procedure of downloading CSV data, looking at this raw data to see how it should be "wrangled" or cleaned (which columns are unnecessary? do the columns need to be transposed? etc...).