Data wrangling in R: Working with dates and strings
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Data wrangling in R: Working with dates and strings In-Person
THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM. A link will be sent out within 24 hours of the workshop.
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
Topics
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
- Date:
- Tuesday, October 27, 2020
- Time:
- 10:00am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Zoom (Online Only)
- Categories:
- Marx Science and Social Science Library Miscellaneous StatLab
Registration has closed.
Event Organizer
Sara Gottlieb-Cohen
