[R Course] Data Visualization with R: Line Charts

Data Visualization R Courses

Line charts made with ggplot2.

Thierry Warin https://warin.ca/aboutme.html (HEC Montréal and CIRANO (Canada))https://www.hec.ca/en/profs/thierry.warin.html
01-24-2020

This course will teach you how to create line charts with ggplot2.

The percentage of people who bought android versus iphone in 2019 worldwide

Loading data

# Open the following packages
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(gsheet)
library(kableExtra)

# Open your data frame
MobileVendor2019 <- read.csv("android_vs_iphone_2019.csv")

# The kable package is an optional step. It makes your table look nicer :)
kable(MobileVendor2019)%>%
scroll_box(width = "100%", height = "400px")
Date Android iOS KaiOS Unknown Samsung Windows Series.40 Nokia.Unknown Tizen Linux SymbianOS BlackBerry.OS Other
2018-12 75.16 21.98 1.13 0.46 0.29 0.33 0.19 0.15 0.11 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.04
2019-01 74.45 22.85 1.10 0.41 0.28 0.30 0.18 0.14 0.10 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.03
2019-02 74.15 23.28 0.96 0.42 0.29 0.29 0.18 0.14 0.09 0.06 0.06 0.05 0.03
2019-03 75.33 22.40 0.84 0.36 0.26 0.28 0.14 0.13 0.07 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.03
2019-04 75.22 22.76 0.73 0.32 0.24 0.26 0.12 0.11 0.07 0.04 0.05 0.05 0.03
2019-05 75.34 22.66 0.77 0.32 0.22 0.24 0.12 0.11 0.08 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.02
2019-06 76.03 22.04 0.79 0.32 0.21 0.21 0.10 0.10 0.07 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.02
2019-07 76.08 22.01 0.81 0.31 0.21 0.20 0.10 0.10 0.07 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.02
2019-08 76.23 22.17 0.59 0.26 0.21 0.20 0.09 0.09 0.07 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.02
2019-09 76.24 22.48 0.38 0.23 0.18 0.17 0.08 0.08 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.01
2019-10 76.67 22.09 0.42 0.21 0.17 0.15 0.07 0.07 0.05 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.01
2019-11 75.82 22.90 0.49 0.19 0.18 0.15 0.06 0.07 0.05 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.01
2019-12 74.13 24.79 0.35 0.19 0.18 0.13 0.06 0.06 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.01

Data Wrangling

# Data Wrangling 
MobileVendor2019 <- dplyr::select(MobileVendor2019, Date, Android, iOS)

MobileVendor2019 <- tidyr::gather(MobileVendor2019,"brand", "value", 2:3)

library(zoo)
MobileVendor2019$Date <- as.yearmon(MobileVendor2019$Date)

kable(MobileVendor2019)%>%
scroll_box(width = "100%", height = "400px")
Date brand value
Dec 2018 Android 75.16
Jan 2019 Android 74.45
Feb 2019 Android 74.15
Mar 2019 Android 75.33
Apr 2019 Android 75.22
May 2019 Android 75.34
Jun 2019 Android 76.03
Jul 2019 Android 76.08
Aug 2019 Android 76.23
Sep 2019 Android 76.24
Oct 2019 Android 76.67
Nov 2019 Android 75.82
Dec 2019 Android 74.13
Dec 2018 iOS 21.98
Jan 2019 iOS 22.85
Feb 2019 iOS 23.28
Mar 2019 iOS 22.40
Apr 2019 iOS 22.76
May 2019 iOS 22.66
Jun 2019 iOS 22.04
Jul 2019 iOS 22.01
Aug 2019 iOS 22.17
Sep 2019 iOS 22.48
Oct 2019 iOS 22.09
Nov 2019 iOS 22.90
Dec 2019 iOS 24.79

Creating visual

# Create your visual
ggplot(data = MobileVendor2019, aes(x = Date, y = value, color = brand)) + 
  geom_line() +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) +
  labs(title = "Android Vs iPhone 2019",
       x = "Date",
       y = "Percentage of people",
       colour = "Brand",
       caption = "Source: Nüance-R")



library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(gsheet)

browser2019 <- read.csv("browser_2019.csv")

browser2019 <- dplyr::select(browser2019, Date, Chrome, Safari, Firefox)

kable(browser2019)%>%
scroll_box(width = "100%", height = "400px")
Date Chrome Safari Firefox
2018-12 62.28 14.69 4.93
2019-01 61.72 15.23 4.66
2019-02 62.41 15.56 4.39
2019-03 62.58 15.64 4.70
2019-04 62.80 15.83 4.86
2019-05 62.98 15.74 5.01
2019-06 63.69 15.15 4.64
2019-07 63.37 15.05 4.49
2019-08 63.99 15.48 4.44
2019-09 63.72 16.34 4.45
2019-10 64.92 15.97 4.33
2019-11 64.26 16.74 4.47
2019-12 63.62 17.68 4.39 
browser2019 <- tidyr::gather(browser2019, "browser", "value", 2:4)

library(zoo)
browser2019$Date <- as.yearmon(browser2019$Date)

kable(browser2019)%>%
scroll_box(width = "100%", height = "400px")
Date browser value
Dec 2018 Chrome 62.28
Jan 2019 Chrome 61.72
Feb 2019 Chrome 62.41
Mar 2019 Chrome 62.58
Apr 2019 Chrome 62.80
May 2019 Chrome 62.98
Jun 2019 Chrome 63.69
Jul 2019 Chrome 63.37
Aug 2019 Chrome 63.99
Sep 2019 Chrome 63.72
Oct 2019 Chrome 64.92
Nov 2019 Chrome 64.26
Dec 2019 Chrome 63.62
Dec 2018 Safari 14.69
Jan 2019 Safari 15.23
Feb 2019 Safari 15.56
Mar 2019 Safari 15.64
Apr 2019 Safari 15.83
May 2019 Safari 15.74
Jun 2019 Safari 15.15
Jul 2019 Safari 15.05
Aug 2019 Safari 15.48
Sep 2019 Safari 16.34
Oct 2019 Safari 15.97
Nov 2019 Safari 16.74
Dec 2019 Safari 17.68
Dec 2018 Firefox 4.93
Jan 2019 Firefox 4.66
Feb 2019 Firefox 4.39
Mar 2019 Firefox 4.70
Apr 2019 Firefox 4.86
May 2019 Firefox 5.01
Jun 2019 Firefox 4.64
Jul 2019 Firefox 4.49
Aug 2019 Firefox 4.44
Sep 2019 Firefox 4.45
Oct 2019 Firefox 4.33
Nov 2019 Firefox 4.47
Dec 2019 Firefox 4.39 
ggplot(data = browser2019, aes(x = Date, y = value, color = browser)) + 
  geom_line() +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) +
  labs(title = "Most popular browsers in 2019",
       x = "Date",
       y = "Percentage of people",
       colour = "Browser",
       caption = "Source: Nüance-R")

You have now learned how to create visuals. Congratulations !

The data used in this article was collected from GS stat counter

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Warin (2020, Jan. 24). Thierry Warin, PhD: [R Course] Data Visualization with R: Line Charts. Retrieved from https://warin.ca/posts/rcourse-datavisualizationwithr-linecharts/

BibTeX citation

@misc{warin2020[r,
  author = {Warin, Thierry},
  title = {Thierry Warin, PhD: [R Course] Data Visualization with R: Line Charts},
  url = {https://warin.ca/posts/rcourse-datavisualizationwithr-linecharts/},
  year = {2020}
}