Summary

Take home messages

1. tidyverse is a package that helps you load many other packages (for data manipulation) into R at once

2. Data manipulation is important to format data for analysis and visualization

3. To figure out what tidyverse commands to use, search for what you want to do + in R using plain language and you can probably find the answer pretty quickly.

Where to go next

• Posit cheat sheets: one-page summaries of the main tidyverse packages
• To get help with any function in R, type ? followed by its name in the console, for example ?filter

Related UBC Library workshops:

• Data manipulation with dplyr
• Relational data in R
• Data visualization with ggplot2