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Rectangling is the art and craft of taking a deeply nested list (often sourced from wild caught JSON or XML) and taming it into a tidy data set of rows and columns. This vignette introduces you to the main rectangling tools provided by tidyr: `unnest_longer()`, `unnest_wider()`, and `hoist()`.

Working with modern APIs you will often have to wrangle with data in JSON format. This article presents some tools and recipes for working with JSON data with R in the tidyverse. We’ll use purrr::map functions to extract and transform our JSON data. And we’ll provide intuitive examples of the cross-overs and differences between purrr ... Read more

My lab investigates how blood pressure can be treated more effectively. Much of that work involves the painstaking development of new concepts and research methods to move forward the state of the art. For example, our work on urinary extracellular vesicles’ mRNA as an ex vivo assay of the ligand-activated transcription factor activity of mineralocorticoid receptors is challenging, fun, and rewarding. With a lot of work from Andrea Berrido and Pradeep Gunasekaran in my lab, we have been moving the ball forward on several key projects on that front.