assignment4packages

An R package that includes a cleaned dataset of common names and an interactive Shiny app to explore name frequencies.

Data source: FiveThirtyEight “Most Common Name” dataset

📖 Documentation website: https://etc5523-2025.github.io/assignment-4-packages-and-shiny-apps-trishaandrea/

🚀 Interactive app:
https://trishaandrea.shinyapps.io/name-explorer/

Installation

You can install the development version of the package from GitHub with:

install.packages(“remotes”)

remotes::install_github(“ETC5523-2025/assignment-4-packages-and-shiny-apps-trishaandrea”)

Launch the app

library(assignment4packages) run_app()

Access and Summarize the Data

library(assignment4packages)

Load the packaged dataset path and read it

csv_path <- system.file(“extdata”, “adjusted-name-combinations-list.csv”, package = “assignment4packages”)

dat <- read.csv(csv_path, check.names = FALSE)

Quick summary (function provided in the package)

dat <- get_names_data() summarize_data(dat)