15. Reshaping Data in the Tidyverse
Chapter 14 covered numerous ways to reshape data such as binding rows and columns, joins, and converting between wide and long data formats. All the described functions from base R and packages such as plyr, data.table and reshape2 are still great options, but the newer packages dplyr and tidyr are designed to work with pipes and may be easier to use for some people. In some cases, these packages will see speed improvements but not always. These, and other packages written mainly by Hadley Wickham, make up the Tidyverse.
15.1 Binding Rows and Columns
The dplyr analogs to rbind and cbind are bind_rows and bind_cols, respectively. These functions do not behave exactly like their base R counterparts; they only ...
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