Import data

# excel file
data <- read_excel("data/myData.xlsx") 
data
## # A tibble: 1,222 × 10
##     year months    state colon…¹ colon…² colon…³ colon…⁴ colon…⁵ colon…⁶ colon…⁷
##    <dbl> <chr>     <chr>   <dbl> <chr>     <dbl>   <dbl> <chr>   <chr>   <chr>  
##  1  2015 January-… Alab…    7000 7000       1800      26 2800    250     4      
##  2  2015 January-… Ariz…   35000 35000      4600      13 3400    2100    6      
##  3  2015 January-… Arka…   13000 14000      1500      11 1200    90      1      
##  4  2015 January-… Cali… 1440000 1690000  255000      15 250000  124000  7      
##  5  2015 January-… Colo…    3500 12500      1500      12 200     140     1      
##  6  2015 January-… Conn…    3900 3900        870      22 290     NA      NA     
##  7  2015 January-… Flor…  305000 315000    42000      13 54000   25000   8      
##  8  2015 January-… Geor…  104000 105000    14500      14 47000   9500    9      
##  9  2015 January-… Hawa…   10500 10500       380       4 3400    760     7      
## 10  2015 January-… Idaho   81000 88000      3700       4 2600    8000    9      
## # … with 1,212 more rows, and abbreviated variable names ¹​colony_n,
## #   ²​colony_max, ³​colony_lost, ⁴​colony_lost_pct, ⁵​colony_added, ⁶​colony_reno,
## #   ⁷​colony_reno_pct

Plot data

data %>%
    
    ggplot(aes(year,colony_added)) +
    geom_line()