Reading and writing data

A short description of the post.

  1. Load the r packages we will use.

max 2. Download \(CO_2\) emissions per capita from Our World in Data into the directory for this post.

  1. Assign the location of the file to ‘file_csv’ The data should be in the same directory file

Read data into R and assign it to ‘emissions’

file_csv <- here("_posts","2021-03-01-reading-and-writing-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 ‘clean_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’

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==2008’ THEN use ‘skim’ to calculate the descriptive statistics.
tidy_emissions %>% 
  filter(year==2008) %>% 
  skim()
Table 1: Data summary
Name Piped data
Number of rows 220
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 0 220 0
code 12 0.95 3 8 0 208 0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate mean sd p0 p25 p50 p75 p100 hist
year 0 1 2008.00 0.00 2008.00 2008.00 2008.0 2008.00 2008.00 ▁▁▇▁▁
per_capita_co2_emissions 0 1 5.42 6.52 0.03 0.78 3.2 8.19 44.72 ▇▂▁▁▁
  1. 13 observations have a missing code. How are these observations different? start with tidy_emissions then extract rows with year==2008 and are missing a code
tidy_emissions %>%
  filter(year==2008, is.na(code))
# A tibble: 12 x 4
   entity                     code   year per_capita_co2_emissions
   <chr>                      <chr> <dbl>                    <dbl>
 1 Africa                     <NA>   2008                     1.22
 2 Asia                       <NA>   2008                     3.57
 3 Asia (excl. China & India) <NA>   2008                     3.76
 4 EU-27                      <NA>   2008                     8.30
 5 EU-28                      <NA>   2008                     8.35
 6 Europe                     <NA>   2008                     8.72
 7 Europe (excl. EU-27)       <NA>   2008                     9.30
 8 Europe (excl. EU-28)       <NA>   2008                     9.44
 9 North America              <NA>   2008                    13.5 
10 North America (excl. USA)  <NA>   2008                     5.45
11 Oceania                    <NA>   2008                    12.9 
12 South America              <NA>   2008                     2.54

Entities that are not countries do not have country codes

  1. Start with tidy_emissions THEN use ‘filter’ to extract rows with year==2008 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_2008’
emissions_2008 <- tidy_emissions %>% 
  filter(year==2008,!is.na(code)) %>% 
  select(-year) %>% 
  rename(country=entity)
  1. Which 15 countries have the highest ‘per_capita_co2_emissions’?

start with ‘emissions_2008’ THEN use ‘slice_max’ to extract 15 rows with the ‘per_capita_co2_emissions’ assign output to ‘max_15_emitters’

max_15_emitters <- emissions_2008 %>% 
  slice_max(per_capita_co2_emissions,n=15)
  1. Which 15 countries have the lowest ‘per_capita-co2_emissions’?

start with ‘emissions_2008’ THEN use ‘slice_min’ to extract the 15 rows with the lowest values assign the output to ‘min_15_emitters’

min_15_emitters <- emissions_2008 %>% 
  slice_min(per_capita_co2_emissions,n=15)
  1. Use ‘bind_rows’ to bind together the ‘max_15_emitters’ and ‘min_15_emitters’ assign the 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="|") #pipe seperated
  1. Read the 3 file format into R
max_min_15_csv <- read_csv("max_min_15.csv") 
max_min_15_tsv <- read_tsv("max_min_15.tsv")
max_min_15_psv <- read_delim("max_min_15.psv", delim="|")
  1. Use ‘setdiff’ to check for any differences among ‘max_min_15_csv’, ‘max_min_15_tsv’ and ‘max_min_15_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>
  1. Reorder ‘country’ in ‘max_min_15’ for plotting and assign to max_min_15_plot_data

start with ‘emissions_2008’ 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 capita C02 emissions",
       subtitle="for 2008",
       x= NULL,
       y= NULL)

  1. Save the plot directory with this post.
ggsave(filename="preview.png",
       path=here("_posts", "2021-03-01-reading-and-writing-data"))
  1. Add preveiw.png to yaml chunk at the top

preview: preview.png