Air quality Assignment

Load in the Dataset

Load the tidyverse package to get the airquality dataset

# install.packages("tidyverse")
library(tidyverse)
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Load the dataset into your global environment

airquality <- airquality

Look at the structure of the data

str(airquality)
## 'data.frame':    153 obs. of  6 variables:
##  $ Ozone  : int  41 36 12 18 NA 28 23 19 8 NA ...
##  $ Solar.R: int  190 118 149 313 NA NA 299 99 19 194 ...
##  $ Wind   : num  7.4 8 12.6 11.5 14.3 14.9 8.6 13.8 20.1 8.6 ...
##  $ Temp   : int  67 72 74 62 56 66 65 59 61 69 ...
##  $ Month  : int  5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 ...
##  $ Day    : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...

Calculating Summary Statistics

mean(airquality$Temp)
## [1] 77.88235
mean(airquality[,4])
## [1] 77.88235

Calculate Median, Standard Deciation, and Variance

median(airquality$Temp)
## [1] 79
sd(airquality$Wind)
## [1] 3.523001
var(airquality$Wind)
## [1] 12.41154

Change the Months from 5 - 9 to May through September

airquality$Month[airquality$Month == 5]<- "May"
airquality$Month[airquality$Month == 6]<- "June"
airquality$Month[airquality$Month == 7]<- "July"
airquality$Month[airquality$Month == 8]<- "August"
airquality$Month[airquality$Month == 9]<- "September"

Look at the summary statistics of the dataset, and see how Month has changed to have characters instead of numbers

str(airquality)
## 'data.frame':    153 obs. of  6 variables:
##  $ Ozone  : int  41 36 12 18 NA 28 23 19 8 NA ...
##  $ Solar.R: int  190 118 149 313 NA NA 299 99 19 194 ...
##  $ Wind   : num  7.4 8 12.6 11.5 14.3 14.9 8.6 13.8 20.1 8.6 ...
##  $ Temp   : int  67 72 74 62 56 66 65 59 61 69 ...
##  $ Month  : chr  "May" "May" "May" "May" ...
##  $ Day    : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
summary(airquality)
##      Ozone           Solar.R           Wind             Temp      
##  Min.   :  1.00   Min.   :  7.0   Min.   : 1.700   Min.   :56.00  
##  1st Qu.: 18.00   1st Qu.:115.8   1st Qu.: 7.400   1st Qu.:72.00  
##  Median : 31.50   Median :205.0   Median : 9.700   Median :79.00  
##  Mean   : 42.13   Mean   :185.9   Mean   : 9.958   Mean   :77.88  
##  3rd Qu.: 63.25   3rd Qu.:258.8   3rd Qu.:11.500   3rd Qu.:85.00  
##  Max.   :168.00   Max.   :334.0   Max.   :20.700   Max.   :97.00  
##  NA's   :37       NA's   :7                                       
##     Month                Day      
##  Length:153         Min.   : 1.0  
##  Class :character   1st Qu.: 8.0  
##  Mode  :character   Median :16.0  
##                     Mean   :15.8  
##                     3rd Qu.:23.0  
##                     Max.   :31.0  
## 

Month is a categorical variable with different levels, called factors.

airquality$Month<-factor(airquality$Month, levels=c("May", "June","July", "August", "September"))

Plot 1: Create a histogram categorized by Month with qplot

p1 <- qplot(data = airquality,Temp,fill = Month,geom = "histogram", bins = 20)
## Warning: `qplot()` was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0.
p1

Plot 2: Make a histogram using ggplot

p2 <- airquality %>%
  ggplot(aes(x=Temp, fill=Month)) +
  geom_histogram(position="identity", alpha=0.5, binwidth = 5, color = "white")+
  scale_fill_discrete(name = "Month", labels = c("May", "June","July", "August", "September"))
p2

Plot 3: Create side-by-side boxplots categorized by Month

p3 <- airquality %>%
  ggplot(aes(Month, Temp, fill = Month)) + 
  ggtitle("Temperatures") +
  xlab("Monthly Temperatures") +
  ylab("Frequency") +
  geom_boxplot() +
  scale_fill_discrete(name = "Month", labels = c("May", "June","July", "August", "September"))
p3 

Plot 4: Make the same side-by-side boxplots, but in grey-scale

p4 <- airquality %>%
  ggplot(aes(Month, Temp, fill = Month)) + 
  ggtitle("Monthly Temperature Variations") +
  xlab("Monthly Temperatures") +
  ylab("Frequency") +
  geom_boxplot()+
  scale_fill_grey(name = "Month", labels = c("May", "June","July", "August", "September"))
p4

Monthly Wind Variations

p5 <- airquality %>%
  ggplot(aes(Month, Wind, fill = Month)) + 
  ggtitle("Monthly Wind Variations") +
  xlab("Monthly Wind (mph)") +
  ylab("Frequency") +
  geom_boxplot() +
  scale_fill_discrete(name = "Month", labels = c("May", "June","July", "August", "September"))
p5

Essay

Based on the above data set, this paper draws a new boxplot to study the correlation between wind and month. It can be seen from the graph drawn that the wind of different months has certain differences. The lowest in July and the highest in May. This shows that the time factor has a relatively significant impact on wind, and this variable has certain differences between different months.