This workshop is in the past and registrations are unavailable.
All times are Pacific Time Zone (Vancouver, BC, Canada).
About the workskhop
Although R is known for its statistical computing and graphical capabilities, it also provides many powerful tools for handling, processing, and analyzing strings and text data. This workshop gives an introduction to handling strings using both Base R and the stringr package, and an introduction to regular expressions in R.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- use common operations and functions to manipulate strings
- learn what regular expressions are and how to use them in R
- apply these concepts to perform text analysis in R
Requirements
- Being able to attend BOTH days
- Participants will need to have R and RStudio installed on their device prior to attending the workshop
- Familiarity with R and the RStudio environment including an understanding of basic functionality such as object assignment, data structures, and running scripts
- Install the latest version of the stringr package by running install.packages("stringr") in R
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Additional notes
Registration closes at 6:00am PST one day before workshop start date. If you wish to attend after registration is closed, please email research-commons@sfu.ca. However, we may not be able to accommodate your request due to short notice.