Marx Science and Social Science Library: “Data Wrangling in R: Working with Dates and Strings”

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 10:00am
Location: 
Zoom Session See map
Event description: 

The Marx Science and Social Science Library Stat Lab presents Sara Gottlieb-Cohen, Yale University Library: 

“Data Wrangling in R: Working with Dates and Strings.”  

Zoom session, register here: https://schedule.yale.edu/event/7195648

This workshop provides a practical introduction working with date/time and string variables in R.

This workshop assumes experience and comfort with using R for data analytic work. If you are new to R, you should start with the “First Steps in R,” “Second Steps in R,” and “Manipulating Data in R using the Tidyverse” workshops.

Software Used: R, RStudio

This workshop covers:

  • Using the lubridate and stringr packages to work with dates and strings, respectively
  • Formatting dates and times
  • Parsing dates
  • Calculating time spans
  • Converting time spans (e.g., hours to minutes)
  • Trimming whitespace from character strings
  • Searching and replacing within character strings
  • Regular expressions
  • Pattern matching and extracting text of interest

 

Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
Yale Community Only