Assignment #1, due Oct 28, 9 am

[joachim-gassen]

Dear all:

This is the thread of our first assignment. As discussed in class yesterday, I want you to do the following:

• Provide code that produces a GIF documenting something interesting based on
  World Bank data. Communicating the increasing income gap between Africa and the
  rest of the world is an option but you can also choose a different topic.

• An example (not based on World Bank data)
  https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1181004566088814594

• Data: worldbank dataset from ExPanDaR package or
  https://data.worldbank.org

• Your solution has to contain code and documentation so that it can
  be reproduced in our development environment. Data should not be included
  but the code should pull it from publicly available resources.

• Deadline for submission: Monday, Oct 28, 9am. Please only commit locally prior
  to the deadline (maybe in a separate branch?) and submit by email.

• After the deadline, feel free to push your code to your remote
  fork for everybody to enjoy.

This thread should be used to discuss topics related to this assignment. In particular, please indicate here when you need extensions in the development environment (e.g., by installing new packages). Ideally, you can do so by also generating a pull request that updates the Dockerfile. This way we can maintain a common development environment and the others can benefit from your ideas.

Have fun! Joachim

[eulersim]

Dear all,
I wanted to let you know that I extended our development enviornment for the first assignment by the packages "gganimate" and "gifski" that helped me to create my GIF.

These links gave me a first idea how to use the packages:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35399182/using-gg-animate-to-create-a-gif
• https://github.com/thomasp85/gganimate
• How does gganimate order an ordered bar time-series? thomasp85/gganimate#189

I will try to create a pull request to updates the Dockerfile, but in case I will not succeed, you have the information here :)
Best wishes from Toulouse! Simone

[fengzhi22]

Thanks Simon for sharing the info!

I have also added two R packages: wbstats (for extracting data from world bank database) and magick (for making gif) to the original dockerfile.

The reference websites are:

• usage of wbstats: https://cengel.github.io/gearup2016/worldbank.html
• making gif using magick:
  https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/magick/vignettes/intro.html#animated_graphics

I will make a pull request incorporating these two packages in our dockerfile soon.

[Paul089]

Dear All,

I used the "WBI" package for access to the worldbank data but have not managed to commit it.

Somehow my repo in github isnt synced but my sposm file on my computer is. I used the instructions on how to keep the forked repo in sync. Therefore I am not sure if and how I can make a pull request to update the docker file.

[NDelventhal]

Hi Paul,
Do you mean the "WDI" package by any chance (also first result when searching for WBI package on Google)? Further, R throws out an error, when trying to install WBI.
If WDI was meant it will be listed in case my pull request goes through.

[joachim-gassen]

OK. Like announced. See your work of arts:

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