Cleaning Raw Data Tutorial (R)

To run this tutorial you will need R Studio version 1.0 or higher. Download the
cleaning_raw_data.zip file and unzip the contents into a folder on your Desktop.
Double-click to open the cleaning_raw_data_XX.Rmd file using R Studio. As you
see each grey section of code in the file viewer pane, click on the green arrow
to run the commands. You will see the results in the window below.

This tutorial has two objectives. The first objective is to demonstrate the
process of cleaning a raw data file from start to finish. The second objective
is to demonstrate some features of R which are critical for writing
efficient code and the syntax for a number of commands needed for data
cleaning. The tutorial concludes with a demonstration of how to reshape data
from long to wide format.