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##Instrutions for running the run_analysis.R over the unclean data provided

• Unzip the source file manually, the source file is obtained from the following path https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/getdata%2Fprojectfiles%2FUCI%20HAR%20Dataset.zip into a folder on your local drive

• Set your current working directory to your local drive where you have the data set with the following command

  • setwd(�local_directory�)

• Put the code file run_analysis.R to your local directory.

• Set the source in R to run_analysis.R this can be accomplished with source(�run_analysis.R�)

• Then on running the R script, it will read the dataset and write these files: tidy_data_1.txt tidy_data_2.txt

• Read the final data into R using data <- read.table("tidy_data_2.txt ") to read the latter. It is 180x68 (30*6 rows).