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      <title>Matt Dray Teaches (Data) Typing</title>
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      <description>Confirmed: Unown is character type.1  tl;dr I forgot that the base R function type.convert() exists. Handy for ‘simplifying’ all the columns of a dataframe to appropriate data types.
 Suppression depression {a11ytables} is an R package that lets you generate publishable spreadsheets that follow the UK government’s best practice guidance.
One requirement is to replace missing values with placeholder symbols. For example, suppressed data can be replaced with the string &#34;</description>
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