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The costverse for the FlexFile: Enabling Powerful Analysis in R
August 12, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The costverse for the FlexFile: Enabling Powerful Analysis in R
Benjamin Berkman
Justin Cooper
Webinar Presentation: Wednesday August 12, 2020 at 12:00pm EST
The Cost and Hour Report (“FlexFile”) is a new Contractor Cost Data Reporting (CCDR) format that promises to change the world of Department of Defense (DoD) cost analysis by delivering significantly more granular cost and hour data than its predecessor, the DD 1921 series of reports. The volume of the FlexFile requires a more thoughtful approach to importing, wrangling, transforming, and ultimately communicating data than Microsoft Excel (Excel) may offer. This paper introduces three R packages that help the analyst exploit the FlexFile to its fullest extent.