HW07 due Thursday October 30
HW08 re: handling character data and data cleaning
- ~~will be posted soon~~ posted
- due Thursday November 06
Office hours are back ON; check that issue for up-to-date info
Regular expressions and handling character data, led by Gloria Li continuing from Monday
Data cleaning via the Gapminder example (now an R package!)
- God willing, the slides are embedded below?

Links from the slides or generally relevant to data cleaning

An introduction to data cleaning with R, a PDF based on a tutorial given by Edwin de Jonge and Mark van der Loo at the useR!2013 conference.
Excel and delimited files, two pages by JB on reading and writing delimited files from Excel. Writing a delimited file from Excel is often the first step in data cleaning.