Week 2: Fundamentals of Digital Data

This week covers the fundamentals of digital data, including bits/bytes, storage and memory, character encodings, R data types, and reading/writing digital data.

Lecture Slides   Supporting Code  

Note: materials will be posted before lecture and seminar each week.

Additional resources

• Wickham, Hadley and Garett Grolemund. 2017, Chapter 14

• Regular expressions cheat sheet

• Regular expressions in R vignette

• Regex explainer on Youtube

• Jeffrey E. F. Fried. 2006. Mastering Regular Expressions

• Two websites for testing regex: regxr.com and regex101.com

• Zentgraf, David C. n.d. “What every programmer absolutely, positively needs to know about encodings and character sets to work with text.” available at https://kunststube.net/encoding/

• {stringr} docs, the {stringr} cheatsheet and Regex with {stringr}