00. Setup

First, install the course’s companion R package, justviz. This is in the class’s GitHub organization.

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("umbc-viz/justviz")

Next, some packages that aren’t required by the justviz package but will get us started for class and are used in these notes:

cran_pkgs <- c(
    "ggplot2", # data visualization powerhouse
    "dplyr", # nice for calculations and data manipulation
    "tidyr", # data reshaping
    "forcats", # handling factors
    "stringr", # string cleanup
    "ggrepel", # force-repelled placement of labels
    "patchwork", # assembling plots
    "here", # marks project roots
    "knitr", # preps conversions between markdown and other formats
    "gt", # like ggplot but for tables
    "kableExtra", # additional styling helpers for knitr tables
    "rcartocolor", # color palettes,
    "snakecase", # convert string styles
    "svglite", # save plots in SVG format
    "colorspace", # helpers for working with color
    "ggtext" # better text formatting in ggplot
)

install.packages(cran_pkgs)
# or use pak:
# pak::pkg_install(cran_pkgs)