Welcome

This is a work-in-progress book about getting data out of spreadsheets, no matter how peculiar. The book is designed primarily for R users who have to extract data from spreadsheets and who are already familiar with the tidyverse. It has a cookbook structure, and can be used as a reference, but readers who begin in the middle might have to work backwards from time to time.

R packages that feature heavily are

  • unpivotr: deals with non-tabular data, especially from spreadsheets.
  • tidyxl: imports non-tabular data from Excel files

Tidyxl and unpivotr are much more complicated than readxl, and that’s the point. Tidyxl and unpivotr give you more power and complexity when you need it.

Please help me to improve this book by opening a GitHub issue or tweeting.

0.0.0.1 Other ways to learn

Some resources give directions in the old way, using compass directions. See ?unpivotr::direction for their modern counterparts.

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The online version of this book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.