DATA MANIPULATION IN R
¿What is DATA MANIPULATION?
Data manipulation, also known as data wrangling, refers to the process of transforming and cleaning raw data into a structured format suitable for analysis. This process involves various operations such as filtering, sorting, aggregating, merging, reshaping, and transforming data to make it more organized, understandable, and ready for analysis. R provides several functions to perform these tasks, but dplyr
is one of the most popular and widely used R packages for data manipulation.
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Base R
Data manipulation in base R involves using the core functions and methods provided by R's base package for handling, transforming, and manipulating data structures such as vectors, matrices, arrays, data frames, and lists. -
dplyr
dplyr
is an R package designed for efficient and user-friendly data manipulation. It provides a set of functions that streamline data wrangling tasks by offering a consistent grammar for manipulating data frames and data tables.