My Blog: Reading and writing data

load the R packages we will use

library(tidyverse)
library(here)
library(janitor)
library(skimr)

Download \(CO_2\) emissions per capita from Our World in Data into the directory for this post.
Assign the location of the file to ‘file_csv’.The data should be in the same directory as this file.

Read the data into R and assign it to ‘emissions’

file_csv <- here("_posts",
                 "2021-02-25-reading-and-writing-data",
                 "co-emissions-per-capita.csv")

emissions <- read_csv(file_csv)

Show the first 10 Rows (Observation of) emissions

emissions

# A tibble: 22,383 x 4
   Entity      Code   Year `Per capita CO2 emissions`
   <chr>       <chr> <dbl>                      <dbl>
 1 Afghanistan AFG    1949                    0.00191
 2 Afghanistan AFG    1950                    0.0109 
 3 Afghanistan AFG    1951                    0.0117 
 4 Afghanistan AFG    1952                    0.0115 
 5 Afghanistan AFG    1953                    0.0132 
 6 Afghanistan AFG    1954                    0.0130 
 7 Afghanistan AFG    1955                    0.0186 
 8 Afghanistan AFG    1956                    0.0218 
 9 Afghanistan AFG    1957                    0.0343 
10 Afghanistan AFG    1958                    0.0380 
# ... with 22,373 more rows

Start with emissions data THEN

use ‘clean_names’ from the janitor package to make the names easier to work with assign the output ‘tidy_emissions’ show the first 10 rows of ‘tidy_emissions’

tidy_emissions <- emissions %>% 
  clean_names()

tidy_emissions

# A tibble: 22,383 x 4
   entity      code   year per_capita_co2_emissions
   <chr>       <chr> <dbl>                    <dbl>
 1 Afghanistan AFG    1949                  0.00191
 2 Afghanistan AFG    1950                  0.0109 
 3 Afghanistan AFG    1951                  0.0117 
 4 Afghanistan AFG    1952                  0.0115 
 5 Afghanistan AFG    1953                  0.0132 
 6 Afghanistan AFG    1954                  0.0130 
 7 Afghanistan AFG    1955                  0.0186 
 8 Afghanistan AFG    1956                  0.0218 
 9 Afghanistan AFG    1957                  0.0343 
10 Afghanistan AFG    1958                  0.0380 
# ... with 22,373 more rows

Start with the tidy_emissions THEN use filter to extract rows with year == 2003 THEN use skim to calculate the descriptive statistics

tidy_emissions %>% 
  filter(year == 2003) %>% 
  skim()

Table 1: Data summary
Name	Piped data
Number of rows	220
Number of columns	4
_______________________
Column type frequency:
character	2
numeric	2
________________________
Group variables	None

Variable type: character

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	empty	n_unique	whitespace
entity	0	1.00	4	32	0	220	0
code	12	0.95	3	8	0	208	0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	mean	sd	p0	p25	p50	p75	p100	hist
year	0	1	2003.00	0.00	2003.00	2003.00	2003.00	2003.00	2003.00	▁▁▇▁▁
per_capita_co2_emissions	0	1	5.24	6.79	0.02	0.77	3.08	7.99	60.56	▇▁▁▁▁

13 observations have a missing code. How are these observations different? Start with tidy_emissions then extract rows with the year == 2003 and are missing a code

tidy_emissions %>% 
  filter(year == 2003, is.na(code))

# A tibble: 12 x 4
   entity                     code   year per_capita_co2_emissions
   <chr>                      <chr> <dbl>                    <dbl>
 1 Africa                     <NA>   2003                     1.12
 2 Asia                       <NA>   2003                     2.72
 3 Asia (excl. China & India) <NA>   2003                     3.47
 4 EU-27                      <NA>   2003                     8.71
 5 EU-28                      <NA>   2003                     8.82
 6 Europe                     <NA>   2003                     8.80
 7 Europe (excl. EU-27)       <NA>   2003                     8.87
 8 Europe (excl. EU-28)       <NA>   2003                     8.69
 9 North America              <NA>   2003                    14.3 
10 North America (excl. USA)  <NA>   2003                     5.52
11 Oceania                    <NA>   2003                    12.9 
12 South America              <NA>   2003                     2.29

Entities that are not countries do not have country codes.

Start with tidy_emissions THEN

Use filter to extract rows with the year == 2003 and without missing codes. THEN use select to drop that ‘year’ variable THEN use rename to change the variable entity to country assign the output to emissions_2003

emissions_2003 <- tidy_emissions %>% 
  filter(year == 2003, !is.na(code)) %>% 
  select(-year) %>% 
  rename (country = entity)

Which 15 countries have the highest per_capita_co2_emissions?

Start with emissions 2003 Then -Use ’slice_max" to extract the 15 rows with the per_capita_co2_emissions -assign the output to max_15_emitters

max_15_emitters <- emissions_2003 %>% 
  slice_max(per_capita_co2_emissions, n = 15)

Which 15 countries have the lowest per_capita_co2_emissions?

start with emissions_2003 THEN
use ’slice_min` to extract 15 rows with the lowest values
assign the output to ’min_15_emitters`

min_15_emitters <- emissions_2003 %>% 
  slice_min(per_capita_co2_emissions, n = 15)

Use bind_rows to bing together the max max_15_emitters and min_15_emitters -assign the output to max_min_15

max_min_15 <- bind_rows(max_15_emitters,min_15_emitters)

Export max_min_15 to file formats

max_min_15 %>% write_csv("max_min_15.csv") # comma-separated values
max_min_15 %>% write_tsv("max_min_15.tsv") # tab separated
max_min_15 %>% write_delim("max_min_15.psv", delim = "|") # pipe-separated

Read the 3 file formats into R

max_min_15_csv <-  read_csv("max_min_15.csv") # comma-separated values
max_min_15_tsv <-  read_tsv("max_min_15.tsv") # tab separated
max_min_15_psv <-  read_delim("max_min_15.psv", delim = "|") # pipe-separated

Use setdiff to check for any differences among max_min_15_csv max_min_15_tsv and max_min_15_psv

setdiff(max_min_15_csv, max_min_15_tsv, max_min_15_psv)

# A tibble: 0 x 3
# ... with 3 variables: country <chr>, code <chr>,
#   per_capita_co2_emissions <dbl>

Are there any differences?

Reorder country in max_min_15` for plotting and assign to max_min_15_plot_data

start with emissions_2003 Then
use mutate to reorder ’countryaccording toper_capita_Co2_emissions`

max_min_15_plot_data <- max_min_15 %>% 
  mutate(country = reorder(country, per_capita_co2_emissions))

Plot max_min_15_plot_data

ggplot(data = max_min_15_plot_data,
       mapping = aes(x= per_capita_co2_emissions,y = country))+
  geom_col()+
  labs(title = "The top 15 and bottom 15 per capita CO2 emissions",
       subtitle = "for 2003",
       x = NULL, 
       y = NULL)

ggsave(filename = "preview.png",
       path = here("_posts", "2021-02-25-reading-and-writing-data"))

Add preview.png to yaml chuck at the top of this file

preview: preview.png