Lab 2: The Shape of Data

You should clone this repository to get started with this lab. The URL to clone is https://github.com/lse-me314/assignment02. You can find detailed instructions on how to do this here.

Resources

• Examine the tutorial on How to Reshape a Data.frame.
• Use the other files in this repository for the exercise.
• Don’t omit reading the the great book R for Data Science. Chapter 12 is a fantastic resource for understanding data reshaping.
• Altaf’s resource on dplyr and the “tidyverse”
• Altaf’s resource on ggplot2

Assignment

1. Identifying the characteristics of “tidy” data.

   a. What makes the following example “non-tidy”?

   

   b. Inspect the R object [cmpdata.RData] from the file of the same name. (You can access this by opening the file from the Files pane of Rstudio.) What makes this data non-tidy?

2. Reshaping in R.

   Work with the file me314-assignment2-LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME.Rmd (after renaming it!)

Solutions

Solution to Assignment 2 as:

• html
• RMarkdown