3 Some introductory functions

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3.1 First, we’re going to load libraries

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library(tidyverse)  #loads ggplot2, stringr,
                    #Installing tidyverse includes (but won't load as part of it) readxl,                       jsonlite, lubridate, httr, rvest, xml2, googlesheets4, 
library(readxl)
library(jsonlite)
library(lubridate)
library(httr)
#these are also useful (in part to demonstrate features)
library(psych)
library(doBy)
library(reshape2)
library(lattice)
library(scales)
library(tidytext)
#SimComp lets me create some random datasets with defined properties
library(SimComp)  
#The ones below are specifically for this data
library(dslabs)
library(trackeR)
library(trackeRapp)
#library(maptools)
#library(revgeo)
#So I can embed webpages
#install.packages("webshot")
#webshot::install_phantomjs()
library(webshot)
library(htmlwidgets)
library(widgetframe)

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