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There you have it! With the power of readr and dplyr in your hands, you can now:

  • load data from a CSV into a data frame
  • inspect the data frame with head() and summary()
  • select() the columns you want to analyze
  • filter() the rows with comparison and logical operators
  • arrange() rows in ascending or descending order

You’ve also been exposed to the pipe %>%, a powerful tool for chaining function calls, as well as the general principles of data manipulation.

Now that you are well on your way to being a dplyr master, let’s combine what you have learned together to perform an analysis and see the true power of the pipe!

Instructions

1.

The code in notebook.Rmd completes a sequence of steps:

  • columns are selected from artists and saved to chosen_cols
  • chosen_cols is filtered and saved to popular_not_hip_hop
  • popular_not_hip_hop is arranged and saved to youtube_desc

Notice that to arrive at this result, two intermediate variables chosen_cols and popular_not_hip_hop were created.

With the power of the pipe, we can clean up this code!

In the last code block, select() all columns except country,year_founded, and albums from artists using the pipe %>%. Save the result to artists and view the head().

2.

Place a pipe %>% after the call to select(). This will pipe your selection to the next line, where you should filter() all rows where spotify_monthly_listeners is greater than 20000000 and genre is not equal to 'Hip Hop'. Keep this data frame saved to artists.

3.

Place a pipe %>% after the call to filter(). This will pipe your filtered data frame to the next line, where you should arrange() the rows in descending order by youtube_subscribers. Keep this data frame saved to artists.

Did you get the same result as the previous code block?

Make sure you’ve called head(artists) to see the resulting data frame!

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