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Drawing your first plot

To get a first feel for ggplot2, let's try to run some basic ggplot2 commands. The mtcars dataset contains information on 32 cars from a 1973 issue of Motor Trend magazine. This dataset is small, intuitive, and contains a variety of continuous and categorical variables.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Data Visualization with ggplot2

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Exercise instructions

  • Load the ggplot2 package using library().
  • Use str() to explore the structure of the mtcars dataset.
  • Submit the code. This will execute the example code. See if you can understand what ggplot does with the data.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Load the ggplot2 package
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# Explore the mtcars data frame with str()
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# Execute the following command
ggplot(mtcars, aes(cyl, mpg)) +
  geom_point()
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