Pivoting Data

This lesson is called Pivoting Data, part of the Data Cleaning with R course. This lesson is called Pivoting Data, part of the Data Cleaning with R course.

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          # Load the dog ranks data ("dogranks_your.csv")
          # Pivot the data (wide to long and back to wide)
          # load packages -----------------------------------------------------------
        
          library(readr)
          library(tidyr)
        
          # import data -------------------------------------------------------------
          dogranks <- read_csv("data/dogranks-your.csv")
          # pivoting ----------------------------------------------------------------
          # longer
        
          dogranks_long <- dogranks %>% pivot_longer(
            cols = -c(Breed, Size),
            names_to = "Year",
            values_to = "Popularity.Rank"
          )
        
          # back to wide
          dogranks_wide <- dogranks_long %>%
            pivot_wider(names_from = "Year", values_from = "Popularity.Rank")
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Load the dog ranks data ("dogranks_your.csv")
Pivot the data (wide to long and back to wide)

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The tidyr pivoting vignette is a great place to start to learn more about pivoting your data. Two other sources that have information on pivoting are cmdlinetips.com and Storybench.

Pivoting Data

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