Introduction

Check the integrity of datasets and clean them up to ensure that the data basis for your analysis is consistent.

Learning objectives

At the end of this unit you should be able to

• identify some common problems in the structure of data frames,
• subset, merge, separate a data frame in order to clean it.

For a quick introduction to sorting and combining data in R check out our own material in the accompanying Base R course.

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