Chapter 3 Exploratory Data Analysis I: Data Wrangling

Description

Presentation of the Markdown language. Creation of a dynamic report. Presentation of the R language syntax. Use of R packages for data management. Presentation of CRAN and OPENCSI for packet access. Presentation of the principles of open science and reproducible research.

Concepts discussed :

  • 1 markdown language

  • 2 R language

  • 3 open science

Pre-Session Activities/Resources

Activities/Resources during the session

  • Use and manipulation of an anonymized dataset of customers of a U.S. retail company.

  • Familiarization with basic R data manipulation functions.

Post-session Activities/Resources

General Resources

  • Happy Git and GitHub for the useR by Jennifer Bryan

  • R Markdown: The Definitive Guide by Yihui Xie, J.J. Allaire & Garrett Grolemund

  • papaja: Reproducible APA manuscripts with R Markdown by Frederik Aust & Marius Barth