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Data Wrangling with R

You're reading from   Data Wrangling with R Load, explore, transform and visualize data for modeling with tidyverse libraries

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235400
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gustavo Santos Gustavo Santos
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Load and Explore Data
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Data Wrangling FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Loading and Exploring Datasets 4. Chapter 3: Basic Data Visualization 5. Part 2: Data Wrangling
6. Chapter 4: Working with Strings 7. Chapter 5: Working with Numbers 8. Chapter 6: Working with Date and Time Objects 9. Chapter 7: Transformations with Base R 10. Chapter 8: Transformations with Tidyverse Libraries 11. Chapter 9: Exploratory Data Analysis 12. Part 3: Data Visualization
13. Chapter 10: Introduction to ggplot2 14. Chapter 11: Enhanced Visualizations with ggplot2 15. Chapter 12: Other Data Visualization Options 16. Part 4: Modeling
17. Chapter 13: Building a Model with R 18. Chapter 14: Build an Application with Shiny in R 19. Conclusion 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Tibbles versus Data Frames

A tibble is a modern data frame. With the evolution of the R language, some features that used to work well for data frames are not very useful now, so Hadley Wickham – the creator of Tidy Data and tidyverse – created a new data type that better fitted his way of working with datasets and dropped the old features, while adding other fancy ones, to create this new data type named Tibble.

Let's refer to the documentation:

they do less (i.e. they don’t change variable names or types, and don’t do partial matching) and complain more (e.g. when a variable does not exist). This forces you to confront problems earlier, typically leading to cleaner, more expressive code. (https://tinyurl.com/43un2f3z)

The main differences between Tibbles and data frames are as follows:

  • They don’t change input variable types, such as strings to factors, by default.
  • They can have lists as columns.
  • They can have non-standard...
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