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Graph Sizing

Let's try resizing our static graph to fit its container.

This exercise is part of the course

Building Dashboards with flexdashboard

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Exercise instructions

  • Resize the Trip Durations graph using the fig.width and fig.height arguments. Use the value 10 for the width and the value 6 for the height.
  • Knit and expand the HTML viewer. Try resizing the window and observe what happens.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

{"my_document.Rmd":"---\ntitle: \"Bike Shares Daily\"\noutput: \n  flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:\n    orientation: columns\n    vertical_layout: fill\n---\n\n```{r setup, include=FALSE}\nlibrary(flexdashboard)\nlibrary(readr)\nlibrary(lubridate)\nlibrary(ggplot2)\nlibrary(tidyverse)\n\ntrips_df <- read_csv('https://assets.datacamp.com/production/course_6355/datasets/sanfran_bikeshare_joined_oneday.csv')\n```\n\n\nOverview\n===================================== \n\nColumn {data-width=650}\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n### Origins\n\n```{r}\n\n```\n\nColumn {data-width=350}\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n### Trips by Start Time\n\n\n### Trip Durations\n\n\n```{r static_plot}\n\ntrips_df %>%\n  mutate(`Trip Duration (min)` = duration_sec / 60) %>%\n  filter(`Trip Duration (min)` <= 60) %>%\n  ggplot(aes(x = `Trip Duration (min)`)) +\n  theme_bw() +\n  geom_histogram(binwidth = 1) +\n  ylab('# Trips')\n\n```\n\n\n"}
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