Summary
Janitor is an R package designed to simplify data cleaning and exploratory analysis, providing functions for column name standardisation, frequency table generation, duplicate detection, and result formatting. Built following tidyverse principles and optimised for accessibility to beginning-to-intermediate users, the package facilitates rapid data quality assessment and reporting workflows.
Regional applicability
As a computational tool with no geographic specificity, janitor is applicable across all regions and agricultural research contexts where R-based data analysis is used. UK-based agricultural researchers using R workflows would find this package equally useful for cleaning field trial, soil survey, or production datasets.
Key measures
Package functionality for data cleaning operations; user-friendliness optimisation for beginning-to-intermediate R users
Outcomes reported
The package provides functions for standardising data frame column names, generating frequency tables and crosstabs, detecting duplicate records, and formatting tabulation outputs compatible with tidyverse principles.
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