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Summarizing by year

In a previous exercise, you found the median life expectancy and the maximum GDP per capita in the year 1957. Now, you'll perform those two summaries within each year in the dataset, using the group_by verb.

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Introduction to the Tidyverse

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Exercise instructions

  • Find the median life expectancy (lifeExp) and maximum GDP per capita (gdpPercap) within each year, saving them into medianLifeExp and maxGdpPercap, respectively.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

library(gapminder)
library(dplyr)

# Find median life expectancy and maximum GDP per capita in each year
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