tidysynthesis Basics

This sections covers a minimum set of concepts and functions required to synthesize data with tidysynthesis. To demonstrate functionality, this section will use complete observations and a subset of variables from the Palmer Penguins data set (Horst, Hill, and Gorman 2020).

library(palmerpenguins)
library(tidyverse)
library(tidysynthesis)

penguins_complete <- penguins %>%
  select(-year) %>%
  filter(complete.cases(.)) %>%
  mutate(
    flipper_length_mm = as.numeric(flipper_length_mm),
    body_mass_g = as.numeric(body_mass_g)
  )

penguins_complete

# A tibble: 333 × 7
   species island    bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_mm body_mass_g
   <fct>   <fct>              <dbl>         <dbl>             <dbl>       <dbl>
 1 Adelie  Torgersen           39.1          18.7               181        3750
 2 Adelie  Torgersen           39.5          17.4               186        3800
 3 Adelie  Torgersen           40.3          18                 195        3250
 4 Adelie  Torgersen           36.7          19.3               193        3450
 5 Adelie  Torgersen           39.3          20.6               190        3650
 6 Adelie  Torgersen           38.9          17.8               181        3625
 7 Adelie  Torgersen           39.2          19.6               195        4675
 8 Adelie  Torgersen           41.1          17.6               182        3200
 9 Adelie  Torgersen           38.6          21.2               191        3800
10 Adelie  Torgersen           34.6          21.1               198        4400
# ℹ 323 more rows
# ℹ 1 more variable: sex <fct>

Horst, Allison Marie, Alison Presmanes Hill, and Kristen B Gorman. 2020. Palmerpenguins: Palmer Archipelago (Antarctica) Penguin Data. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3960218.