Janitor: R Package for Data Cleaning and Tabulation

An R package built by Sam Firke for examining and cleaning data. It provides functions to format column names, create frequency tables and crosstabs, and explore duplicate records. The package follows tidyverse principles and is optimized for user-friendliness for beginning-to-intermediate R users.

Use Cases

• Standardize messy column names based on the package's name formatting functions.
• Generate frequency tables and crosstabs based on the described tabulation features.
• Identify and explore duplicate records within a dataset based on the duplicate record exploration function.
• Format tabulation results for reporting based on the package's output formatting functions.

Strengths

• Built with user-friendliness as an explicit goal for beginning-to-intermediate R users.
• Functions are designed to approximate popular tabulation features from SPSS and Microsoft Excel.
• Follows tidyverse principles and integrates with the pipe operator for workflow compatibility.

Limitations

• Row count, column details, and file formats are unknown, which limits suitability assessment.
• Last update date and license information are unknown; freshness and usage rights are unverified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Sam Firke

Collection Method

Software package development for data cleaning.