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Creating a subgraph for each continent

You've learned to use faceting to divide a graph into subplots based on one of its variables, such as the continent.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to the Tidyverse

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Exercise instructions

  • Create a scatter plot of gapminder_1952 with the x-axis representing population (pop), the y-axis representing life expectancy (lifeExp), and faceted to have one subplot per continent (continent). Put the x-axis on a log scale.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

library(gapminder)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

gapminder_1952 <- gapminder %>%
  filter(year == 1952)

# Scatter plot comparing pop and lifeExp, faceted by continent
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