First Time Practicing Positron

Look I’m Doing It

Author

Melissa Jenkins

Published

June 24, 2026

Assignment. Practice for Dr. Julianne Clina’s introduction to R presentation. This Quarto document will be used to practice my first GitHub pull request. ::: {r} #Hello R-LAB message(“My first GitHub push worked!”) x <- 1:10 mean(x) :::

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()