STAT 545 Directory

By: Jennica Nichols
October 20, 2017

Project Directory Support

This document serves as a guide for the entire project to help when I review this repo in the future to apply what was learned in STAT 545 to my research.

Assignment 1

This is the link for the first homework assignment.

• Edit README.md to include information about myself
• Initial exploration of gapminder

Assignment 2

This is the link for the second homework assignment.

• Data exploration
  • Categorical and continuous variable exploration
  • Data frame exploration (str() and summary())
  • Inital plots using ggplot()

Assignment 3

This is the link for the third homework assignment.

• dplyr exploration

  • summarise()
  • mutate()
  • filter()
  • group_by

• graphing using ggplot2

  • geom_point()
  • geom_smooth()
  • geom_line()

Assignment 4

This is the link for the fourth homework assignment.

• tidying data using the tidyr package

  • spread()
  • gather()

• practicing joining two datasets in various ways

  • left_join(), right_join(), inner_join()
  • intersect(), union(), setdiff()
  • semi_join(), anti_join()

Assignment 5

This is the link for the fifth homework assignment.

• creating better graphs using ggplot2

  • look at lecture files on computer for a great lecture about data visualization from a guest lecturer

• more using dplyr

  • arrange()

• working with factors using the forcats package

  • fct_reorder()
  • drop_levels()

• writing and reading dataframes using readr package

  • write_csv()
  • read_csv()

• create and embedding image files

  • ggsave()