Use pivot_wider() to shape your data - R programming for beginners

This video tutorial demonstrates how to convert long data into wide data using the pivot_wider function in R. The instructor emphasizes the importance of the tidyverse package for data manipulation and provides a detailed walkthrough of the Orange dataset. The tutorial covers the process of transforming data by converting ages into column names and mapping circumferences into cells. The instructor also highlights the use of pipe operators in tidyverse and previews the next tutorial on reversing the transformation from wide to long data.

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