Topics

• Reading and writing tabular data in plain-text files (CSV, TSV, etc.)
• data.table
• Creating vectors
• Pattern Matching and Replacement
• ggplot2
• Installing packages
• Missing values
• Classes
• I/O for foreign tables (Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata)

Examples

• Sequence of numbers
• Read and write Stata, SPSS and SAS files
• Prepare your data for plotting
• Special symbols in data.table
• Install packages from GitHub
• Creating named vectors
• Vectors from build in constants: Sequences of letters & month names
• Examining missing data
• Reading and writing data with NA values