Welcome to How to Visualize Data with R. In this course, You’ll learn how to use the R programming language and RStudio to visualize data. Elisabeth will take you through building a visualization using data downloaded from the US National Weather Service. You’ll learn how to use R to read data from a CSV file, inspect and understand data and data frames, and use the plot() and ggplot() functions to create data visualizations. Along the way, you’ll learn from the ground up how to use R and RStudio, including how to create and run an R script, basic R data types and values, how to create a scatter plot graph, how linear regression works, and how to install and use an R package.
At the end of the course, you’ll have completed a data visualization of the weather data and have some new skills you can apply to your own data too.
The code bundle for this course is available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/How-to-Visualize-Data-with-R
Build data visualization using R programming language and RStudio
Use R to read data from a CSV file, inspect and understand data frames
Use the plot() and ggplot() functions to create data visualizations
Learn how to use R and RStudio
Create and run an R script and learn basic R data types and values
Create a scatter plot graph and learn how linear regression works
We recommend that you have some background in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You don’t need to be an expert by any means, but you should have experience building web pages with HTML and CSS, and you should have basic programming skills with JavaScript.