A gRadual intRoduction to the tidyverse

Chester Ismay and Ted Laderas

2017-08-21

Prerequisites

Audience: Beginner to Intermediate R Users

This book replicates the materials developed for a workshop for the Cascadia-R conference meant to be a gentle introduction to the tidyverse for data wrangling and visualization.

What You’ll Learn

Part 1 - Aesthetics and ggplot2

Part 2 - Factors and ggplot2

Part 3 - Manipulating Data using dplyr

Part 4 - The Whys and Hows of Tidy Data using tidyr

Part 5 - More on factors with forcats

Before We Get Started

Before continuing, please make sure that R and RStudio are installed on your laptop. (You should have version 3.3 or higher for R and version 1.0 or higher of RStudio.) Then install the tidyverse, gapminder, fivethirtyeight, and rmarkdown packages from CRAN using the following command:

install.packages(c("tidyverse", "gapminder", "fivethirtyeight", "rmarkdown"))