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Add split-apply-combine explanation to dplyr episode

Open lcsanford opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

In previous experience teaching dplyr I have found that using Hadley Wickham's split-apply-combine language has helped students understand the power of dplyr, and might make some of the later exercises (and diagrams) easier to understand.

lcsanford avatar May 20 '20 17:05 lcsanford

@lcsanford - Thanks for the suggestion. I'll leave this as an open issue to bve worked on

lachlandeer avatar Jun 05 '20 04:06 lachlandeer

plyr is now a retired package. The recommended replacement package is purrr now.

Hadley Wickham's book "R for data science" has a section on purrr's map functions, which, I believe, follow the split-apply-combine pattern.

However, I think @lcsanford's suggestion fits better to a software lesson rather than an introductory data lesson on geospatial data.

albhasan avatar Jan 08 '24 18:01 albhasan