Learning and using the tidyverse for historical research

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R and the tidyverse power a workflow that turns 6,000 transcribed letters and 300‑page account books into maps and financial visualizations. A package called debkeepr implements an LSD class (three‑element vectors with a basis attribute) and functions like deb_lsd_gather to import, normalize, add and divide non‑decimal pounds/shillings/pence; it reproduces arithmetic, aggregates amounts (e.g. £41,112 10s 5d), produces ggplot and sf maps, has a pkgdown site with three vignettes, and is usable on real archival data.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:40Power of coding
3. 3:46Just pick a project
4. 10:21debkeepr: Analysis of non-decimal currencies
5. 11:30Partible Inheritance
6. 12:49Arithmetic by hand

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