DAiR_Workshop2024
Author: Dr. Hamed Abdollahi
PI: Dr. Homayoun Valafar
Datasets/Data Sources of Interest
Sample Data sets of workshop
R built-in data sets
R comes with several built-in data sets, which are generally used as demo data for playing with R functions.
To see the list of pre-loaded data:
Loading a built-in R data
Other Data sets
| Type | Package Name | Author(s) | CRAN | Objective & GitHub | Installatin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseball | mlbgameday | Kris Eberwein | Archived | Data Collection | install.packages("mlbgameday") devtools::install_github("keberwein/mlbgameday") |
| Basketball | ballr | Ryan Elmore | Archived | Current and Historical Basketball Data | install.packages("ballr") devtools::install_github("rtelmore/ballr") |
| Hockey | nhlapi | Jozef Hajnala | Active | NHL API | install.packages("nhlapi") remotes::install_github("jozefhajnala/nhlapi") |
| Movie | No Package | IMDb | NA | Dataset(s) of movie information | Download from the Hyperlink |
| Movie | No Package | IMDb | NA | Dataset(s) of movie information | Download from the Hyperlink |
Import Data
In this workshop we recommend the Tidyverse approach to learning and using R
Below are some of the core tidyverse packages that are loaded with the function: library(tidyverse).
| package | use | package | use |
|---|---|---|---|
dplyr  |
data wrangling | forcats  |
categorical data / factors |
ggplot2  |
visualization | lubridate |
dates and times |
readr  |
import CSV | stringr  |
regular expressions / strings |
purrr  |
iteration / functional programing | tidyr  |
pivot data |
readxl  |
import Excel files | haven  |
import SPSS/Stata/SAS |
read.csv: For reading in comma separated value files (“.csv”).
read.delim: For reading in delimited text files (“.txt”).
scan: For reading a file, or keyboard input, into a vector.
read_excel: For reading in excel spreadsheets (“.xls” or “.xlsx”). From the readxl package.