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added two slides on 1) cases and 2) janitor pkg
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+## An aside on cases in coding
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+![](images/allison_horst_cases.png){ width=80% }
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+## The janitor package handles suboptimal column names
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+* The [janitor](https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/janitor/versions/2.2.1) package has an extremely useful function called `clean_names()` which will handle all of your gross header names for you
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+* From the `clean_names()` documentation:
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+<center>Resulting names are unique and consist only of the _ character, numbers, and letters. Capitalization preferences can be specified using the case parameter.</center>  
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 ## Organizing data in spreadsheets | Broman & Woo (2018)
 
 No empty cells -- use `NA` or some other placeholder

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