The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package. R has a number of quick, elegant ways to join data ...

Before you start analyzing, you might want to take a look at your data object’s structure and a few row entries. If it’s a 2-dimensional table of data stored in an R data frame object with rows and ...

Hello, I'm experimenting with DuckDB's spatial extension to unionize multiple large spatial datasets with polygon geometries. The datasets include a large number of different attributes, leading to a ...