Prepare

Due: August 26st, 2024

Please read the following to learn about the flights dataset and be introduced to the pipe operator. Note: This book uses %>%. We will use |> in class. These are both pipe operators, and they will work the same for the scope of ST 511.

📖 Read: R4DS - Chapter 3 section 3.1.2

Please read the following to learn about how to calculate summary statistics with the functions group_by() and summarise(). Note: summarise() and summarize() are the exact same function, and operate the same way.

📖 Read: R4DS - Chapter 3 section 5 through 3.5.5

If you want more practice with calculating summary statistics, you can follow along with this blogpost before, or after we have discussed this in class!

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