dtplyr VS ggplot2-book

Can’t say I’ve used it, but isn’t that what dtplyr is supposed to provide?

https://dtplyr.tidyverse.org/

# I am trying to follow the example at https://dtplyr.tidyverse.org/

FYI the developer of tidytable has been developing dtplyr for the Tidyverse. You might like that too!

If you need speed, you should consider using dtplyr (or tidytable), or even dbplyr with duckdb.

https://dtplyr.tidyverse.org/ ?

If you want data.table speed, but using dplyr/tidy then dtplyr is a good package to have handy. Personally I love R, and choose R + NodeJS as my gotos for everything I do, and use Python only when I have to.

Also, that dataset is quite big, and the "base" Tidyverse will be excessively slow. You should supplement the "base" Tidyverse packages (i.e. dplyr and tidyr) with either dtplyr or dbplyr (+ duckDB). I'd suggest starting with dtplyr, which should handle 10M+ rows fine.

If you want, there's a "substitute" for dplyr called dtplyr (also part of the Tidyverse), which "translates" your dplyr/tidyr code into data.table behind the scenes, and allows you to make your modifications apply directly to the original dataset by default:

Install the dtplyr package and change your code to:

Get the best of both worlds (tidyverse + data.tables) with dtplyr, a data.table backend for dplyr.

I also only recently started using ggplot after doing most of my graphs with base R‘s plot() function. I started by reading ggplot2 by Hadley Wickham which is also available as a free ebook. Reading the first few chapters is enough to enable you to plot many basic plots. I can’t imagine going back to any other visualization tool ever again. Absolutely love the freedom ggplot gives you.

His ggplot book will teach you all you need to know about R plotting, and is probably right at your current level. It is likewise pretty great, ggplot

The OG book is still the best in my opinion! https://ggplot2-book.org/

You could use base R, see ?plot but a lot of people would use ggplot2. However, looking at your data it won’t look very good because there’s going to be very few points per country.

If you included DESCRIPTION to your repository (like in ggplot2-book - https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2-book/blob/master/DESCRIPTION ) devtools::install_deps() and renv::install() will install dependencies listed there as would pip with requirements.txt , you can trigger this from your R script, from command line or from whatever deployment / automation tool you are using.

Chapters 1-8 of https://adv-r.hadley.nz/, https://r4ds.had.co.nz/ , and https://ggplot2-book.org/ were covered in my statistical computing courses. I don't think it gets much more advanced than that at the undergrad level.

You can check out more about Ggplot2 here: https://ggplot2-book.org/

* "ggplot2: Elegant graphics for data analysis" : https://ggplot2-book.org/