Reading and writting data

Practice reading and writting data, more dplyr and a plot.

  1. Load the R packages we will use.
  1. Download \(CO_2\) emissions per capita from Our World in Data into the directory for this post.

  2. Assign the location of the file to file_csv. The data should be in the same directory as this file.

Read the data into R and assign it to emissions.

file_csv <- here("_posts",
                 "2021-02-24-reading-and-writting-data",
                 "co-emissions-per-capita.csv") 

emissions <- read_csv(file_csv) 
  1. Show the first 10 rows (observations of) emissions
emissions
# A tibble: 22,383 x 4
   Entity      Code   Year `Per capita CO2 emissions`
   <chr>       <chr> <dbl>                      <dbl>
 1 Afghanistan AFG    1949                    0.00191
 2 Afghanistan AFG    1950                    0.0109 
 3 Afghanistan AFG    1951                    0.0117 
 4 Afghanistan AFG    1952                    0.0115 
 5 Afghanistan AFG    1953                    0.0132 
 6 Afghanistan AFG    1954                    0.0130 
 7 Afghanistan AFG    1955                    0.0186 
 8 Afghanistan AFG    1956                    0.0218 
 9 Afghanistan AFG    1957                    0.0343 
10 Afghanistan AFG    1958                    0.0380 
# ... with 22,373 more rows
  1. Start with emissions data THEN use claen_names from the janitor package to make the names easier to work with assign the output to tidy_emissions show the first 10 rows of tidy_emissions
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tidy_emissions <- emissions %>% clean_names()

tidy_emissions
# A tibble: 22,383 x 4
   entity      code   year per_capita_co2_emissions
   <chr>       <chr> <dbl>                    <dbl>
 1 Afghanistan AFG    1949                  0.00191
 2 Afghanistan AFG    1950                  0.0109 
 3 Afghanistan AFG    1951                  0.0117 
 4 Afghanistan AFG    1952                  0.0115 
 5 Afghanistan AFG    1953                  0.0132 
 6 Afghanistan AFG    1954                  0.0130 
 7 Afghanistan AFG    1955                  0.0186 
 8 Afghanistan AFG    1956                  0.0218 
 9 Afghanistan AFG    1957                  0.0343 
10 Afghanistan AFG    1958                  0.0380 
# ... with 22,373 more rows
  1. Start with the tidy_emissions THEN use filter to extract rows with year==1984 THEN use skim to calculate the descriptive statistics
tidy_emissions %>%
  filter(year==1984) %>%
  skim()
Table 1: Data summary
Name Piped data
Number of rows 209
Number of columns 4
_______________________
Column type frequency:
character 2
numeric 2
________________________
Group variables None

Variable type: character

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate min max empty n_unique whitespace
entity 0 1.00 4 32 0 209 0
code 12 0.94 3 8 0 197 0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate mean sd p0 p25 p50 p75 p100 hist
year 0 1 1984.00 0.0 1984.00 1984.00 1984.0 1984.00 1984.0 ▁▁▇▁▁
per_capita_co2_emissions 0 1 5.31 8.3 0.04 0.51 2.4 7.55 75.6 ▇▁▁▁▁
  1. 12 observations have a missing code. How are these observations different? start with tidy_emissions then extract rows with year==1984 and are missing a code
tidy_emissions %>% filter(year==1984, is.na(code))
# A tibble: 12 x 4
   entity                     code   year per_capita_co2_emissions
   <chr>                      <chr> <dbl>                    <dbl>
 1 Africa                     <NA>   1984                     1.23
 2 Asia                       <NA>   1984                     1.74
 3 Asia (excl. China & India) <NA>   1984                     2.71
 4 EU-27                      <NA>   1984                     9.08
 5 EU-28                      <NA>   1984                     9.11
 6 Europe                     <NA>   1984                    10.5 
 7 Europe (excl. EU-27)       <NA>   1984                    12.5 
 8 Europe (excl. EU-28)       <NA>   1984                    13.2 
 9 North America              <NA>   1984                    13.3 
10 North America (excl. USA)  <NA>   1984                     5.04
11 Oceania                    <NA>   1984                    10.7 
12 South America              <NA>   1984                     1.87
  1. Start with tidy_emissions THEN use filter to extract rows with year==1984 and without missing codes THEN use select to drop the year variable THEN use rename to change the variable entity to country assign the output to emissions_1984
emissions_1984 <- tidy_emissions %>%
  filter(year==1984, !is.na(code)) %>% 
  select(-year) %>% 
  rename(country=entity) 
  1. Which 15 countries have the highest per_capita_co2_emissions? start with emissions_1984 THEN use slice_max to extract the 15 rows with the per_capita_co2_emissions assign the output to max_15_emitters
max_15_emitters <- emissions_1984 %>% slice_max(per_capita_co2_emissions, n=15) 
  1. Which 15 countries have the lowest per_capita_co2_emissions? start with emissions_1984 THEN use slice_min to extract the 15 rows with the lowest values assign to output min_15_emitters
min_15_emitters <- emissions_1984 %>% slice_min(per_capita_co2_emissions, n=15)
  1. Use bind_rows to bind together the max_15_emitters and min_15_emitters assign output to max_min_15
max_min_15 <- bind_rows(max_15_emitters, min_15_emitters)
  1. Export max_min_15 to 3 file formats
max_min_15 %>% write_csv("max_min_15.csv") # comma separated values
max_min_15 %>% write_tsv("max_min_15.tsv") # tab separated 
max_min_15 %>% write_delim("max_min_15.psv", delim= "I") # pipe separated 
  1. Read the 3 file formats into R
max_min_15_csv <- read_csv("max_min_15.csv") # comma separated values 
max_min_15_tsv <- read_tsv("max_min_15.tsv") # tab separated 
max_min_15_psv <- read_delim("max_min_15.psv", delim = "I") # pipe separated 
  1. Use setdiff to check for any differences among max_min_15_csv, max_min_15_tsv and max_min_14_psv
setdiff(max_min_15_csv, max_min_15_tsv, max_min_15_psv)
# A tibble: 0 x 3
# ... with 3 variables: country <chr>, code <chr>,
#   per_capita_co2_emissions <dbl>

Are there any differences?

  1. Reorder country in max_min_15 for plotting and assign to max_min_15_plot_data

start with emissions_1984 THEN use mutate to reorder country according to per_capita_co2_emissions

max_min_15_plot_data <- max_min_15 %>% 
  mutate(country=reorder(country, per_capita_co2_emissions))
  1. Plot max_min_15_plot_data
ggplot(data=max_min_15_plot_data,
       mapping=aes(x=per_capita_co2_emissions, y=country)) + geom_col() + 
  labs(title = "The top 15 and bottom 15 per captia CO2 emissions", 
       subtitle = "for 1984",
       x=NULL,
       y=NULL)

  1. Save the plot directory with this post
ggsave(filename = "preview.png",
       path = here("_posts", "2021-02-24-reading-and-writting-data"))
  1. Add preview.png to yaml chuck at the top of this file
preview: preview.png