DataEditR: A New R GUI for Interactive Dataframe Editing

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What is DataEditR?

DataEditR is a great addition to the R package ecosystem. I see it being immediately useful for beginners coming from Excel where they are used to being able to edit data interactively in an Excel Worksheet.

Why Use DataEditR?

One of my biggest challenges when I moved from Excel to R was the transition from an interactive worksheet where I could edit data using point-click-edit to a data frame that requires code to edit. This was a serious hurdle. I wish I had a tool like DataEditR when I was first starting out.

Fast-forward to 2021, and here we are: DataEditR, the GUI I never had. Today, you'll learn how to use this Excel-style dataframe editing tool.

Image Source: https://github.com/DillonHammill/DataEditR

Getting Up and Running

It’s super-simple to get started with DataEditR. Just run this code to:

1. Load Libraries: Load DataEditR , tidyverse and tidyquant.