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The R tidyverse packages

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The R tidyverse packages

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Let's take a moment to dive a bit deeper into the different Tidyverse packages you will use in this course. The ten packages you will use in this course are. readr, readxl, tibble, tidyr, stringr, lubridate, forcasts, purrr, dplyr and ggplot2. Let's start with the readr and readxl packages. The readr package allows you to import data that is in a tabular format from delimited files, such as comma separated values and tab separated values. The readxl package also allows you to import data that is in a tabular format, but this package focuses on Microsoft Excel files such as XLS and XLSX. Something to keep in mind is that both of these packages will import your data into your code as a tibble. The tibble package allows you to create and convert data into tibbles. A tibble is a modern reimagining of a data frame. Tibbles are the main data format that will be used throughout this course, and they will be thoroughly explained in a later video. Note that you can use other data types with…

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