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Convert strings to dates with mutate

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Convert strings to dates with mutate

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- [Instructor] Dplyr is a member of the tidyverse ecosystem and designed for mini plating data with a variety of different verbs. If you're interested in manipulating data sets, then mutate is the function you want to use. Mutate lets you modify existing columns, for instance, modifying a column with misform dates into something that can actually be used by R for date arithmetic. Mutate can also be used to add new columns to a data set. For instance, calculating percentage values. Let's jump into our exercise files to see some examples of using mutate. Our exercise files contain two folders, data and data-raw. Let's have a look inside of data. That's currently empty. Data-raw, that has an Excel file in it, and also a data-tidyingR file. This is where we're going to be working, so let's open that up. I'm just going to resize some of my windows, so I've got more room to play with. I don't need a file explorer anymore, so I'll maximize the size of the Console. Now let's see what we have…

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