In the R by Example series of workshops, we’ll discuss example analyses in R as a vehicle for learning  commonly used tools and programming patterns.  The “Analyzing RECS using data.table” workshop will focus on analyzing winter home temperatures in the US using data from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/).  We’ll use the data.table package for data manipulations and ggplot2 for plotting.  The workshop will be organized in a parallel fashion, with participants given time to build an analysis from scratch by adapting presented examples step by step. In the process, participants will become familiar with core data.table functionality including its pivot methods.  This workshop is geared towards beginner to intermediate R users or those new to data.table.