November Meeting Recap

Our November meeting was on Thursday, Nov. 30th.

Bob McDonald compared the timing of different approaches in R for reading in data, performing some basic manipulation tasks, and then writing files. The pdf presentation and source code are here:

• Code: https://github.com/rmcd1024/Rinstruction/tree/master/r-four-ways
• Data: http://derivatives.kellogg.northwestern.edu/files/allstates.zip

Frank Fineis introduced us to working with databases in R: https://github.com/nuitrcs/databases_workshop

Links to a few additional resources for learning to use databases in R can be found at: https://github.com/nuitrcs/databases_workshop/tree/master/r

There will be no meeting in December – see you in January!

If you’d like to volunteer to present in a future meeting, please email Christina at christina.maimone@northwestern.edu.