R is also a powerful tool to deal with text data. This time we first clarified the concept between character and string by practicing some tricky examples and some basic ideas that we can play with our text data such as substring, combining and replacing. Then a txt file was introduced to let attendee play with it. The result really interested them a lot.

Here is the link to our open lab’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/wbh0912/R-Open-Lab-Fall-2018

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