Clean Data Using R

Anscombe’s quartet: Four datasets that have nearly identical summary statistics but contain different plotted values.

Log file: A computer-generated file that records events from operating systems and other software programs.

FWF(fixed-width file): A text file with a specific format, which enables the saving of textual data in an organized fashion.

TSV(Tab-separated-values file): A text file that stores a data table by separating columns of data with tabs.

Tidy data: A way of standardizing the organization of data within R.

Tibble: A streamlined variation of data frames.

head(): An R function that returns a preview of the column names and the first few rows of a dataset.

mutate(): An R function that makes changes to a data frame, separating and merging columns or creating new variables.