By Matt Brousil This post walks through some best practices for formatting and preparing your data for use with R. Some of the suggestions here are drawn from Data Carpentry, Broman and Woo (2018), and the BES Guide to Reproducible Code. The required dataset is available here. A previous version of this post that deals …

By Matt Brousil The goal of this walkthrough is to look over some methods for cleaning and maintaining data and scripts. This will not be comprehensive for either topic, but contains some tips I've collected. Data Cleaned data is a wonderful thing. There are resources like Data Carpentry to provide crash courses in how …