run_analysis.R

Required Data

The input data required to run this script can be found here.

Script Overview

Goal

The goal of the run_analysis.R script is to accomplish the following.

  • Merges the training and the test sets to create one data set.
  • Extracts only the measurements on the mean and standard deviation for each measurement.
  • Uses descriptive activity names to name the activities in the data set
  • Appropriately labels the data set with descriptive variable names.
  • From the data set in step 4, creates a second, independent tidy data set with the average of each variable for each activity and each subject.

The tidy dataset is writed to a file (tidy_data_output.txt) in the same directory of the script.