We already introduced the data.table package (Dowle, Srinivasan, Short, and Lianoglou, 2015). The data.table package is the heart of this chapter, covering the basics of accessing, editing, and manipulating data under the broad term data management. Although not glamorous, data management is a critical first step to data visualization or analysis. Furthermore, the majority of time on a particular analysis project often comes from data management. For example, running a linear model in R takes one line of code, ...
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8. Data Munging with data.table
Matt Wiley1 and Joshua F. Wiley1
(1)Elkhart Group Ltd. & Victoria College, Columbia City, Indiana, USA
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