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List wrangling cheat sheet? #25

Open DanOvando opened 8 years ago

DanOvando commented 8 years ago

Hey guys, given that we're apparently moving towards a world of endlessly nested lists (thanks tibbles!), has anyone come across a comparable resource to the "data wrangling with dplyr and tidyr" for manipulating lists? Or even just a recommended overview of lists as a data structure? Trying to get a more birds-eye view of the best way to manipulate these guys.

jcvdav commented 8 years ago

Hey Dan,

I was looking into this just last week. I bookmarked some interesing blogs for a wide range of data managing / visualization tools, and an interesting package: listviewer. With listviewer::jsonedit(my_list) you can look at a "tree" (among other views) of your list in R's viewer. However, this only allows you to look at it, not manipulate it. Hope it helps into some extent!

DanOvando commented 8 years ago

Thanks Juan,

Also, apparently Hadley is psychic, just released this (though for some reason it doesn't seem to be part of the book yet)

http://r4ds.had.co.nz/lists.html

bbest commented 8 years ago

Good one Dan (and Hadley)! I like the section on map functions from purrr (more in purrr blog https://blog.rstudio.org/2015/09/29/purrr-0-1-0/) - powerful list functions with chaining ease.

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Thanks Juan,

Also, apparently Hadley is psychic, just released this (though for some reason it doesn't seem to be part of the book yet)

http://r4ds.had.co.nz/lists.html

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