| title | Getting Help! | |||||
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| week | 7 | |||||
| type | Case Study | |||||
| subtitle | Learning more about finding help | |||||
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- How to write a reproducible example
- Learn how to read R help files effectively
- Learn how to search for help
- Learn how to create a Minimum Working Example (MWE)
- Debug existing code
- Save your reprex to your course repository as an html file using Export -> "Save As Webpage" in the RStudio "Viewer" Tab.
library(tidyverse)
library(reprex)
library(sf)
library(spData)
data(world)You want to make a figure illustrating the distribution of GDP per capita for all countries within each continent using the world data in the spData package.
Your desired figure looks something like the following:
You have started working on the figure but can't seem to make it work like you want. Here is your current version of the code (and the resulting figure):
ggplot(world,aes(x=gdpPercap, y=continent, color=continent))+
geom_density(alpha=0.5,color=F)
The second figure is quite different from the one you want. You want to ask for help and so you know that you need to make a reproducible example. Starting with the code above, make the required edits so you can use reprex() to generate a nicely formatted example that you could email or post to a forum to ask for help. See the reading for more help. Note: you do not need to recreate the first figure above, only to use reprex() to illustrate your question and problematic code.
- Download the starter R script (if desired){target="_blank"}. Save this directly to your course folder (repository) so you don't lose track of it!
- Add code needed to produce the second plot (loading required libraries above and loading the
worlddata) - Copy the code to your clipboard
- run
reprex()to generate the reproducible example in the "Viewer Pane" - Export the preview as an html file and save it in your course repository. It should look something like this (note the image is intentionally blurred):
