* 2010: The first time I documented cleaning this dataset. I started with
delimited files I exported from Excel. Not present in this repo.
* 2014: I re-cleaned the data and (mostly) forced myself to pull it straight
out of the spreadsheets. Used the `gdata` package. It was kind of painful, due to encoding and other issues. See these scripts here *link to version of this directory at initial CRAN release*.
out of the spreadsheets. Used the `gdata` package. It was kind of painful, due to encoding and other issues. See the scripts in this state in [v0.1.0](https://github.com/jennybc/gapminder/tree/v0.1.0/data-raw).
* 2015: I revisited the cleaning and switched to `readxl`. This was much less painful. Present day.
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ I explicitly use this package to teach data cleaning, so have refactored my old
Cleaning history
- 2010: The first time I documented cleaning this dataset. I started with delimited files I exported from Excel. Not present in this repo.
- 2014: I re-cleaned the data and (mostly) forced myself to pull it straight out of the spreadsheets. Used the `gdata` package. It was kind of painful, due to encoding and other issues. See these scripts here *link to version of this directory at initial CRAN release*.
- 2014: I re-cleaned the data and (mostly) forced myself to pull it straight out of the spreadsheets. Used the `gdata` package. It was kind of painful, due to encoding and other issues. See the scripts in this state in [v0.1.0](https://github.com/jennybc/gapminder/tree/v0.1.0/data-raw).
- 2015: I revisited the cleaning and switched to `readxl`. This was much less painful. Present day.