Sometimes I see data posted in a Stack Overflow question formatted like in this question. This is not the first time, so I have decided to ask a question about it, and answer the question with a way to make the posted data palatable.
I will post the dataset example here just in case the question is deleted.
+------------+------+------+----------+--------------------------+| Date | Emp1 | Case | Priority | PriorityCountinLast7days |+------------+------+------+----------+--------------------------+| 2018-06-01 | A | A1 | 0 | 0 || 2018-06-03 | A | A2 | 0 | 1 || 2018-06-03 | A | A3 | 0 | 2 || 2018-06-03 | A | A4 | 1 | 1 || 2018-06-03 | A | A5 | 2 | 1 || 2018-06-04 | A | A6 | 0 | 3 || 2018-06-01 | B | B1 | 0 | 1 || 2018-06-02 | B | B2 | 0 | 2 || 2018-06-03 | B | B3 | 0 | 3 |+------------+------+------+----------+--------------------------+As you can see this is not the right way to post data. As a user wrote in a comment,
It must've taken a bit of time to format the data the way you're showing it here. Unfortunately this is not a good format for us to copy & paste.
I believe this says it all. The asker is well intended and it took some work and time to try to be nice, but the result is not good.
What can R code do to make that table usable, if anything? Will it take a great deal of trouble?
