Course description
Programmers, data analysts, data scientists, and anyone who works with data has probably spent many hours staring at data organized into rows and columns. Those data structures are referred to as spreadsheets or tables and they form the basis for much of the data manipulation done today. Finish the first leg in your R journey with a look at two special objects in R used to work with tabular, or tabled data: the Data Frame and Data Table. Explore their internal structure, how to create them, and how they can be manipulated, queried, filtered, joined, grouped, or sorted just as if they were database table objects. Lastly, take a look at some helpful functions in R which can be used to streamline your code.
Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.
Prerequisites
This course assumes that student has some programming experience and using a personal computer. No other experience is required.
Meet the expert
Kevin McCarty
Kevin McCarty is a computer professional with over 30 years of experience in the industry as a programmer, project manager, database administrator, architect, and data scientist. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 25 individual certifications in programming and database technologies and serves as the chapter leader of the Boise SQL Server Users Group. A former Army officer and Eagle Scout, he holds a doctorate in Computer Science and a lifelong love of learning.
Video Runtime
100 Minutes
Time to complete
170 Minutes
Course Outline
Data Frames and Tables
Data Frames (10:54)
Working With Data Frames (30:39)
Data Tables (15:22)
Working With Data Tables (19:19)
Shortcuts (23:53)