Chapter 8 Introduction to Graphing

The first skill most students want to master when learning R is how to graph their data. While graphing is useful, it is of my opinion that data management is far more exciting.

Graphing data assumes that your dataset is clean and is ready to be handled as is. If you need to add new variables or remove missing values, you must first learn to organize your data (or you can manually edit it in Excel). In the Tidyverse chapter (see Chapter 4), we’ve learned the basics for managing our data in R using the tidyverse package. Later, we will go over advanced techniques in data wrangling.