This project illustrates how to create a new ggplot2 geom in R that allows to visualize hurricane wind fields using the data from The Tropical Cyclone Extended Best Track Dataset. The motivation of this undertaking was to solve the peer-graded assignment of the Building Data Visualization Tools course.
The project has the following structure:
- _CODES: Includes two files: ggplot2.R and submitted_geom_hurricane.R. The first one creates two visualizations of the Hurricane Ike and the latter was the submitted code for the peer-graded assignment of the Coursera's course; moreover, this contains roxygen2-style documentation to exemplify how to integrate the new geom into a new R package.
- _GRAPHS: Contains the plots created by ggplot2.R code in order to demonstrate how the new geom works: Ike_path.png and submitted_image.png.
- _RESOURCES: Includes all the resources that I used during the creation process of the new geom.
- _TEXTS: Consists of all my personal notes that I considered relevant for this task.
As stated above, the two images created by the geom are the following:
