R-Ladies - ggplot tutorial with Marguerite Mauritz

A note from Marguerite:

Hi Rladies participants,

I will be demonstrating some uses of ggplot, one of R’s graphing packages. I’ll give a short intro and then we’ll do a code-along so that everyone can do their own typing.
We will make a few basic figures and then experiment with customizing to make them pretty.
Some code will be pre-written to make it easier to keep up, and some parts you will have to fill in.

To prepare, please pre-load the Tidyverse package in R, on a WiFi connection.

# Tidyverse has a number of basic packages that all load together using the command:
install.packages(“tidyverse”)
library(tidyverse)

Check that you definitely have:
ggplot2
dplyr
tidyr
readr
On the day of the workshop, we will have the code template and data on USB drives so that you can easily load it to your computer offline. We will use some data that from my research in the Chihuahuan desert looking at rainfall and how water it moves through the soil. It’s for demonstration purposes only and I think has many features that would appear in other data problems.

Tidyverse is a nice set of packages that work together to make coding and data structure smoother.
More information about Tidyverse is here:
https://www.tidyverse.org/packages/