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R Workshop IV: plyr Package: Tools for Splitting, Applying and Combining Data

Written by Jun Zhao | Sep 24, 2013 11:59:30 AM

Many thanks go to Kai Xiao for giving such a great speech!

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Meetup Announcement:

Speaker:

Kai Xiao, Data scientist @ Supstat Inc.

Mode:

Webcast Workshop

Outline:

kai explained what plyr is, how to get informatioin of data by using plyr package. At last,  he showed a user case of NBA knicks team data using plyr.

Preparation:

Please install R, RStudio, plyr package, lattice package, ggplot2 package and grab a dataset you are interested to work with.

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Other Useful Info Link:

Reference:

http://plyr.had.co.nz/

 

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