Part 26 Tidy Data and Pivoting

library(tidyverse)

26.1 Orientation

26.1.1 Today

Today’s concept is tidy data and the tidyr package.

• Reshaping data by pivoting with tidyr::pivot_longer() and tidyr::pivot_wider().

26.1.2 Resources

For concepts of tidy data:

• Jenny Bryan’s intro to tidy data is short and sweet.
  • the repo this links to has some useful exercises too, but uses the older spread() and gather() functions.
• tidyr vignette on tidy data.
• Hadley’s paper on tidy data provides a thorough investigation.

For pivoting with tidyr, check out the pivot vignette.