Working with Data Workshop Series - Oct. 24, 26 & 28
Workshop 1: Monday, October 24th, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Workshop 2: Wednesday, October 26th, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Workshop 3: Friday, October 28th, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location for all workshops: Room LSC3 – Life Sciences Institute – 2350 Health Sciences Mall. Vancouver, BC
In this workshop, we teach different ways to manipulate data in tabular and text forms. We will use both the built-in R functions and the R package ‘dplyr’, which provides powerful high-level operations to summarize and transform data frames. We will also introduce you to “regular expressions”, a powerful notation for expressing text.
You will learn:
- to create subsets of rows or columns from data frames using dplyr,
- to select pieces of an object by indexing using element names or position,
- to change your data frames between wide and narrow formats using the packages reshape2 or tidyr,
- to work with text data (strings) including pasting strings together, modifying, and manipulating a specific segment in a string of text,
- to use regular expressions for finding and validating text in R objects and,
- how substitution patterns can be used for data cleaning.
For more information and to register, please visit the ECOSCOPE website.