As a team, take 3 minutes to come up with

1. A couple of male and female names that are "more modern"
2. A couple of male and female names that are "more old-fashioned"
3. More difficult: One male and one female name that are "back in vogue"

• Base R, i.e. R straight out of the box, is fairly limited in power and functionality.
• R Packages are extensions to R contributed by a world-wide community of R users that extend base R's functionality and are downloadable over the internet from RStudio.

Click here for a list.

Today we are going to install 3 packages:

• dplyr: a package for data manipulation
• ggplot2: a package for data visualization
• babynames: a package of baby name data

Go to Files Panel -> Packages -> Install -> Type in dplyr ggplot2 babynames to install all 3 at once.

• You only need to install packages once, but its a good idea to periodically update your package by clicking "Update"
• However, each time you use a package you need to load it first by running library(PACKAGENAME) in the console each time you start R

The babynames package contains for each year from 1880 to 2013, the number of children born of each sex given each name in the United States (source: SSA).

Note:

• All names with more than 5 uses are given
• If a name occured less than 5 times in a given year for a given sex, it is lumped into "Other"