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railroads
faostat
wildbirds
Author

Niyati Sharma

Published

October 16, 2022

Code
library(tidyverse)

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE)

Challenge Overview

Today’s challenge is to

  1. read in a dataset, and

  2. describe the dataset using both words and any supporting information (e.g., tables, etc)

Read in the Data

Read in one (or more) of the following data sets, using the correct R package and command.

  • railroad_2012_clean_county.csv ⭐
  • birds.csv ⭐⭐
  • FAOstat*.csv ⭐⭐
  • wild_bird_data.xlsx ⭐⭐⭐
  • StateCounty2012.xls ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Find the _data folder, located inside the posts folder. Then you can read in the data, using either one of the readr standard tidy read commands, or a specialized package such as readxl.

Code
birds_df <- read_csv("_data/birds.csv")
birds_df
# A tibble: 30,977 × 14
   Domain Cod…¹ Domain Area …² Area  Eleme…³ Element Item …⁴ Item  Year …⁵  Year
   <chr>        <chr>    <dbl> <chr>   <dbl> <chr>     <dbl> <chr>   <dbl> <dbl>
 1 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1961  1961
 2 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1962  1962
 3 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1963  1963
 4 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1964  1964
 5 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1965  1965
 6 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1966  1966
 7 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1967  1967
 8 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1968  1968
 9 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1969  1969
10 QA           Live …       2 Afgh…    5112 Stocks     1057 Chic…    1970  1970
# … with 30,967 more rows, 4 more variables: Unit <chr>, Value <dbl>,
#   Flag <chr>, `Flag Description` <chr>, and abbreviated variable names
#   ¹​`Domain Code`, ²​`Area Code`, ³​`Element Code`, ⁴​`Item Code`, ⁵​`Year Code`

Description

Birds dataset has 30,977 rows and 14 columns. Eight of those columns are character-based, while the remaining six are integer based. Through Summary function we can calculate the duration of the dataset(year 1961-2018) and there are 1036 cells where the value is NA.From count function we can say that there are 5 types of birds in the dataset.

Code
summary(birds)
Error in summary(birds): object 'birds' not found
Code
count(birds, Item)
Error in count(birds, Item): object 'birds' not found
Source Code
---
title: "Challenge 1 "
author: "Niyati Sharma"
desription: "Reading in data and creating a post"
date: "10/16/2022"
format:
  html:
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    code-copy: true
    code-tools: true
categories:
  - challenge_1
  - railroads
  - faostat
  - wildbirds
---

```{r}
#| label: setup
#| warning: false
#| message: false

library(tidyverse)

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE)
```

## Challenge Overview

Today's challenge is to

1)  read in a dataset, and

2)  describe the dataset using both words and any supporting information (e.g., tables, etc)

## Read in the Data

Read in one (or more) of the following data sets, using the correct R package and command.

-   railroad_2012_clean_county.csv ⭐
-   birds.csv ⭐⭐
-   FAOstat\*.csv ⭐⭐
-   wild_bird_data.xlsx ⭐⭐⭐
-   StateCounty2012.xls ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Find the `_data` folder, located inside the `posts` folder. Then you can read in the data, using either one of the `readr` standard tidy read commands, or a specialized package such as `readxl`.

```{r}
birds_df <- read_csv("_data/birds.csv")
birds_df

```



## Description 
Birds dataset has 30,977 rows and 14 columns. Eight of those columns are character-based, while the remaining six are integer based. Through Summary function we can calculate the duration of the dataset(year 1961-2018) and there are 1036 cells where the value is NA.From count function we can say that there are 5 types of birds in the dataset.


```{r}
summary(birds)

```
```{r}
count(birds, Item)
```