A gRadual intRoduction to the tidyverse

Chester Ismay and Ted Laderas

Audience: Beginner to Intermediate R Users

This is 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 Today

Part 1 - Aesthetics and ggplot2 - Part1-ggplot2_intro.Rmd

Part 2 - Factors and ggplot2 - Part2-workingWithFactors.Rmd

Part 3 - Manipulating Data using dplyr Part3-dplyr_intro.Rmd

Part 4 - The Whys and Hows of Tidy Data using tidyr Part4-WhyTidyData.Rmd

Before We Get Started

Before the workshop, 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"))

During the Workshop

We'll be using the cascadiarconf slack (http://cascadiarconf.slack.com). Here is the link to the invite if you haven't yet joined: http://bit.ly/cascadiarconf

Go to the #gradual-tidyverse channel. Feel free to ask questions there! Please answer them if you know the answer.

Since there are so many of us, please get to know your neighbor and work together. If you have major issues, we'll try to get to you.

Use your Post-Its to signal whether you are doing ok (Green) or you need help (Red) and one of us will help you.

To get started

Download this repo by clicking the green "Clone or Download". Select "Download as Zip" and open the zip file.

Open the gRadual-intRoduction-tidyverse.Rproj file in RStudio and open Part1-ggplot2_intro.Rmd.