Airquality Assignment

Author

J Brown

Airquality Assignment

##Load the library

library(tidyverse)
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##Load the dataset into your global environment

data("airquality")

View the data using the head function

head(airquality)
  Ozone Solar.R Wind Temp Month Day
1    41     190  7.4   67     5   1
2    36     118  8.0   72     5   2
3    12     149 12.6   74     5   3
4    18     313 11.5   62     5   4
5    NA      NA 14.3   56     5   5
6    28      NA 14.9   66     5   6

Calculate summary statistics

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

Calculate median, standard deviation, and variance

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

Rename months from numbers to names

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"

Now look at the summary statistics of the dataset

summary(airquality$Month)
   Length     Class      Mode 
      153 character character 

Month is a categorical variable with different levels, called factors

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

Histogram categorized by month

P1

p1 <- airquality |>
  ggplot(aes(x=Temp, fill=Month)) +
  geom_histogram(position="identity")+
  scale_fill_discrete(name = "Month", 
                      labels = c("May", "June","July", "August", "September")) +
  labs(x = "Monthly Temperatures from May - Sept", 
       y = "Frequency of Temps",
       title = "Histogram of Monthly Temperatures from May - Sept, 1973",
       caption = "New York State Department of Conservation and the National Weather Service")  #provide the data source

P2

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")) +
  labs(x = "Monthly Temperatures from May - Sept", 
       y = "Frequency of Temps",
       title = "Histogram of Monthly Temperatures from May - Sept, 1973",
       caption = "New York State Department of Conservation and the National Weather Service")

P3

p3 <- airquality |>
  ggplot(aes(Month, Temp, fill = Month)) + 
  labs(x = "Months from May through September", y = "Temperatures", 
       title = "Side-by-Side Boxplot of Monthly Temperatures",
       caption = "New York State Department of Conservation and the National Weather Service") +
  geom_boxplot() +
  scale_fill_discrete(name = "Month", labels = c("May", "June","July", "August", "September"))

P4

 p4 <- airquality |>
ggplot(aes(Month, Temp, fill = Month)) + 
  labs(x = "Monthly Temperatures", y = "Temperatures", 
       title = "Side-by-Side Boxplot of Monthly Temperatures",
       caption = "New York State Department of Conservation and the National Weather Service") +
  geom_boxplot()+
  scale_fill_grey(name = "Month", labels = c("May", "June","July", "August", "September"))

P5

p5 <- airquality |>
  ggplot(aes(x=Temp, fill=Month)) + geom_histogram(x = "Monthly Temps", y = "Months", 
       title = "Side-by-Side Boxplot of temperatures through the months",
       caption = "National Weather Service") +
  geom_boxplot()+
  scale_fill_grey(name = "Month", labels = c("May", "June","July", "August", "September"))
Warning in geom_histogram(x = "Monthly Temps", y = "Months", title =
"Side-by-Side Boxplot of temperatures through the months", : Ignoring unknown
parameters: `title` and `caption`

Essay

For my plot 5, I used the same formats as the other 4 plots. The change I made to plot 5 was making x axis the temp and fill for the months. I also changed the x to temperatures and changed y to the months out of curiosity to see the graph it makes with the variables flipped. I also changed the caption to something different from the New York weather service from plot 4 to just the National weather service. The only thing I kept the same is filling the grey scale on all the plots and using a geometric box plot to display all the data for the months listed. I also tried to keep the overall format the same to avoid confusion and stray errors.