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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R
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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R

by Radhika Datar, Harish Garg
May 2019
Beginner to intermediate
266 pages
5h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cleaning the dataset

Data cleaning, or rather, tidying up the data is the process of transforming raw data into specific consistent data, which includes analysis in a simpler manner. The R programming language includes a set of comprehensive tools that are specifically designed to clean the data in an effective manner. We will focus on cleaning the dataset over here in a specific way.

The following steps are carried out to perform cleaning attributes of datasets or data frames:

  1. Include the libraries that are required to clean and tidy up the dataset as follows:
> library(dplyr)> library(tidyr)
  1. Analyze the summary of our dataset as shown here, which will help us to focus on which attributes we need to work on:
> summary(GlassDataset)
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ISBN: 9781789804379