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R Programming By Example

You're reading from   R Programming By Example Practical, hands-on projects to help you get started with R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292542
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Omar Trejo Navarro Omar Trejo Navarro
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to R 2. Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics FREE CHAPTER 3. Predicting Votes with Linear Models 4. Simulating Sales Data and Working with Databases 5. Communicating Sales with Visualizations 6. Understanding Reviews with Text Analysis 7. Developing Automatic Presentations 8. Object-Oriented System to Track Cryptocurrencies 9. Implementing an Efficient Simple Moving Average 10. Adding Interactivity with Dashboards 11. Required Packages

Looking at geographical data with static maps

Maps can be very useful tools to get an intuition behind geographical data. In this section, we will produce a map with the ggplot2 package. The objective is to show the location of our client's messages, the PRICE associated to their purchases, and the corresponding PROFIT_RATIO. This example will show us how to join data from the sales and client_messages data frames.

Our graph_client_messages_static() function receives as parameters the client_messages and sales data frames, and that's all it needs as we are showing unfiltered (full) datasets. First, we need to merge our two data frames using the identifier they share, which is SALE_ID. To do so we use the merge() function, and we specify that we want to keep all observation on the x data frame, which is the first one (client_messages), and we don't want to keep observations...

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