Practical Exercise Template

Adjust the YAML each week when doing a new exercise

Author

Ainsley VanderGiesen

Published

June 24, 2026

Assignment. Add assignment details here. Update this section with the current week’s tasks or instructions, and any additional resources to complete the assignment.

Introduction to dplyr

library(dplyr)

starwars |>
  mutate(name, bmi = mass / ((height / 100)^2)) |>
  select(name:mass, bmi)
# A tibble: 87 × 4
   name               height  mass   bmi
   <chr>               <int> <dbl> <dbl>
 1 Luke Skywalker        172    77  26.0
 2 C-3PO                 167    75  26.9
 3 R2-D2                  96    32  34.7
 4 Darth Vader           202   136  33.3
 5 Leia Organa           150    49  21.8
 6 Owen Lars             178   120  37.9
 7 Beru Whitesun Lars    165    75  27.5
 8 R5-D4                  97    32  34.0
 9 Biggs Darklighter     183    84  25.1
10 Obi-Wan Kenobi        182    77  23.2
# ℹ 77 more rows

Introduction to ggplot2

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy, colour = class)) +
  geom_point()