Tag Archives: data set

Random Data Sets Quickly

Posted on April 25, 2015 by tylerrinker

This post will discuss a recent GitHub package I’m working on, wakefield to generate random data sets. The post is broken into the following sections: Demo 1.1 Random Variable Functions 1.2 Random Data Frames 1.3 Missing Values 1.4 Default Data … Continue reading →

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reshape (from base) Explained: Part II

Posted on May 6, 2012 by tylerrinker

Part II Explains More Complex  Wide to Long With base reshape  In part I of this base reshape tutorial we went over the basics of reshaping data with reshape.  We learned two rules that help us to be more efficient … Continue reading →

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Function to Generate a Random Data Set

Posted on May 2, 2012 by tylerrinker

Often I find myself needing data sets to try functions and code out on or for teaching purposes.  I have a few stand-bys such as the mtcars and CO2 data sets in the base packages of R but sometimes I … Continue reading →

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