Great question. What do I want? I want my co-workers to stop using Excel spreadsheets for data entry, storage, and sharing! I want them to understand the value of data discipline. But alas . . . .
I work in a county health department in the US. Between dplyr, stringr, grep, grepl, and the base R read() functions, I'm doing OK. I need to learn more about APIs, so I can see if I can make R directly grab data from, e.g. our state health department sources. My biggest hassle is having to download a data file, save it somewhere, and then open R and read it in. I'd like to be able to do it all in R. Would make the generation of recurring reports easier. --Chris Ryan Robert Wilkins wrote: > R has a very wide audience, clinical research, astronomy, psychology, and > so on and so on. > I would consider data analysis work to be three stages: data preparation, > statistical analysis, and producing the report. > This regards the process of getting the data ready for analysis and > reporting, sometimes called "data cleaning" or "data munging" or "data > wrangling". > > So as regards tools for data preparation, speaking to the highly diverse > audience mentioned, here is my question: > > What do you want? > Or are you already quite happy with the range of tools that is currently > before you? > > [BTW, I posed the same question last week to the r-devel list, and was > advised that r-help might be a more suitable audience by one of the > moderators.] > > Robert Wilkins > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.