Tidyverse: easy handling of tables

Check out the following material:

• Slides for this lesson
• R script for this lesson
• dplyr cheat sheet
• tidyr cheat sheet
• tidy data tutor: submit your tidy code and see what it will do
• Andrew Heiss’s blog: visualization of the workings of dplyr functions

Tidyverse is a collection of packages to simplify analyzing data in tables. The ggplot2 package for data visualization was handled in a previous lesson. In this lesson we will focus on the following components of the tidyverse:

• dplyr for easy manipulation of tables
  
• tidyr for easy reformatting of tables
  
• the pipe operator from the magrittr package to easily combine functions