Summarizing the median life expectancy in 1957

Rather than summarizing the entire dataset, you may want to find the median life expectancy for only one particular year. In this case, you'll find the median in the year 1957.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to the Tidyverse

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Exercise instructions

Filter for the year 1957, then use the median() function within a summarize() to calculate the median life expectancy into a column called medianLifeExp.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

library(gapminder)
library(dplyr)

# Filter for 1957 then summarize the median life expectancy

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