Hands-on Exercise 1.1: Geospatial Data Wrangling with R

Published

November 15, 2023

Modified

November 18, 2023

Overview

In this hands-on exercise, I learn how to import and wrangling geospatial data in using appropriate R packages.

Getting Started

The code chunk below install and load sf and tidyverse packages into R environment.

pacman::p_load(sf, tidyverse)

Importing Geospatial Data

Importing polygon feature data

Dataset used:

Click here to know more about st_read()

  1. MP14_SUBZONE_WEB_PL, a polygon feature layer in ESRI shapefile format
mpsz = st_read(dsn = "data/geospatial", layer = "MP14_SUBZONE_WEB_PL")
Reading layer `MP14_SUBZONE_WEB_PL' from data source 
  `C:\czx0727\ISSS624_\hands_on_ex1\data\geospatial' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
Simple feature collection with 323 features and 15 fields
Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
Dimension:     XY
Bounding box:  xmin: 2667.538 ymin: 15748.72 xmax: 56396.44 ymax: 50256.33
Projected CRS: SVY21
  1. CyclingPath, a line feature layer in ESRI shapefile format
cyclingpath = st_read(dsn = "data/geospatial",                           layer = "CyclingPathGazette")
Reading layer `CyclingPathGazette' from data source 
  `C:\czx0727\ISSS624_\hands_on_ex1\data\geospatial' using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
Simple feature collection with 2558 features and 2 fields
Geometry type: MULTILINESTRING
Dimension:     XY
Bounding box:  xmin: 11854.32 ymin: 28347.98 xmax: 42626.09 ymax: 48948.15
Projected CRS: SVY21
  1. PreSchool, a point feature layer in kml file format
preschool = st_read("data/geospatial/PreSchoolsLocation.kml")
Reading layer `PRESCHOOLS_LOCATION' from data source 
  `C:\czx0727\ISSS624_\hands_on_ex1\data\geospatial\PreSchoolsLocation.kml' 
  using driver `KML'
Simple feature collection with 2290 features and 2 fields
Geometry type: POINT
Dimension:     XYZ
Bounding box:  xmin: 103.6878 ymin: 1.247759 xmax: 103.9897 ymax: 1.462134
z_range:       zmin: 0 zmax: 0
Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84

Checking content of a simple dataframe

  1. Working with st_geometry()
st_geometry(mpsz)
Geometry set for 323 features 
Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
Dimension:     XY
Bounding box:  xmin: 2667.538 ymin: 15748.72 xmax: 56396.44 ymax: 50256.33
Projected CRS: SVY21
First 5 geometries:
MULTIPOLYGON (((31495.56 30140.01, 31980.96 296...
MULTIPOLYGON (((29092.28 30021.89, 29119.64 300...
MULTIPOLYGON (((29932.33 29879.12, 29947.32 298...
MULTIPOLYGON (((27131.28 30059.73, 27088.33 297...
MULTIPOLYGON (((26451.03 30396.46, 26440.47 303...
  1. Working with glimpse()
glimpse(mpsz)
Rows: 323
Columns: 16
$ OBJECTID   <int> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, …
$ SUBZONE_NO <int> 1, 1, 3, 8, 3, 7, 9, 2, 13, 7, 12, 6, 1, 5, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, …
$ SUBZONE_N  <chr> "MARINA SOUTH", "PEARL'S HILL", "BOAT QUAY", "HENDERSON HIL…
$ SUBZONE_C  <chr> "MSSZ01", "OTSZ01", "SRSZ03", "BMSZ08", "BMSZ03", "BMSZ07",…
$ CA_IND     <chr> "Y", "Y", "Y", "N", "N", "N", "N", "Y", "N", "N", "N", "N",…
$ PLN_AREA_N <chr> "MARINA SOUTH", "OUTRAM", "SINGAPORE RIVER", "BUKIT MERAH",…
$ PLN_AREA_C <chr> "MS", "OT", "SR", "BM", "BM", "BM", "BM", "SR", "QT", "QT",…
$ REGION_N   <chr> "CENTRAL REGION", "CENTRAL REGION", "CENTRAL REGION", "CENT…
$ REGION_C   <chr> "CR", "CR", "CR", "CR", "CR", "CR", "CR", "CR", "CR", "CR",…
$ INC_CRC    <chr> "5ED7EB253F99252E", "8C7149B9EB32EEFC", "C35FEFF02B13E0E5",…
$ FMEL_UPD_D <date> 2014-12-05, 2014-12-05, 2014-12-05, 2014-12-05, 2014-12-05…
$ X_ADDR     <dbl> 31595.84, 28679.06, 29654.96, 26782.83, 26201.96, 25358.82,…
$ Y_ADDR     <dbl> 29220.19, 29782.05, 29974.66, 29933.77, 30005.70, 29991.38,…
$ SHAPE_Leng <dbl> 5267.381, 3506.107, 1740.926, 3313.625, 2825.594, 4428.913,…
$ SHAPE_Area <dbl> 1630379.27, 559816.25, 160807.50, 595428.89, 387429.44, 103…
$ geometry   <MULTIPOLYGON [m]> MULTIPOLYGON (((31495.56 30..., MULTIPOLYGON (…
  1. Working with head()
head(mpsz, n=5) 
Simple feature collection with 5 features and 15 fields
Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
Dimension:     XY
Bounding box:  xmin: 25867.68 ymin: 28369.47 xmax: 32362.39 ymax: 30435.54
Projected CRS: SVY21
  OBJECTID SUBZONE_NO      SUBZONE_N SUBZONE_C CA_IND      PLN_AREA_N
1        1          1   MARINA SOUTH    MSSZ01      Y    MARINA SOUTH
2        2          1   PEARL'S HILL    OTSZ01      Y          OUTRAM
3        3          3      BOAT QUAY    SRSZ03      Y SINGAPORE RIVER
4        4          8 HENDERSON HILL    BMSZ08      N     BUKIT MERAH
5        5          3        REDHILL    BMSZ03      N     BUKIT MERAH
  PLN_AREA_C       REGION_N REGION_C          INC_CRC FMEL_UPD_D   X_ADDR
1         MS CENTRAL REGION       CR 5ED7EB253F99252E 2014-12-05 31595.84
2         OT CENTRAL REGION       CR 8C7149B9EB32EEFC 2014-12-05 28679.06
3         SR CENTRAL REGION       CR C35FEFF02B13E0E5 2014-12-05 29654.96
4         BM CENTRAL REGION       CR 3775D82C5DDBEFBD 2014-12-05 26782.83
5         BM CENTRAL REGION       CR 85D9ABEF0A40678F 2014-12-05 26201.96
    Y_ADDR SHAPE_Leng SHAPE_Area                       geometry
1 29220.19   5267.381  1630379.3 MULTIPOLYGON (((31495.56 30...
2 29782.05   3506.107   559816.2 MULTIPOLYGON (((29092.28 30...
3 29974.66   1740.926   160807.5 MULTIPOLYGON (((29932.33 29...
4 29933.77   3313.625   595428.9 MULTIPOLYGON (((27131.28 30...
5 30005.70   2825.594   387429.4 MULTIPOLYGON (((26451.03 30...

Plotting Geospatial Data

  1. Using plot - Default plot of an object is a multi-plot of all attributes, up to a reasonable maximum as shown below
plot(mpsz)
Warning: plotting the first 9 out of 15 attributes; use max.plot = 15 to plot
all

  1. Choose only the geometry
plot(st_geometry(mpsz))

  1. Plot sf using special attributes
plot(mpsz["PLN_AREA_N"])

Assigning EPSG code to a simple feature data frame

This is an example the coordinate system of mpsz simple feature data frame by using st_crs() of sf package as shown in the code chunk below.

st_crs(mpsz)
Coordinate Reference System:
  User input: SVY21 
  wkt:
PROJCRS["SVY21",
    BASEGEOGCRS["SVY21[WGS84]",
        DATUM["World Geodetic System 1984",
            ELLIPSOID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
                LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
            ID["EPSG",6326]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]],
    CONVERSION["unnamed",
        METHOD["Transverse Mercator",
            ID["EPSG",9807]],
        PARAMETER["Latitude of natural origin",1.36666666666667,
            ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8801]],
        PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",103.833333333333,
            ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8802]],
        PARAMETER["Scale factor at natural origin",1,
            SCALEUNIT["unity",1],
            ID["EPSG",8805]],
        PARAMETER["False easting",28001.642,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8806]],
        PARAMETER["False northing",38744.572,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8807]]],
    CS[Cartesian,2],
        AXIS["(E)",east,
            ORDER[1],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1,
                ID["EPSG",9001]]],
        AXIS["(N)",north,
            ORDER[2],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1,
                ID["EPSG",9001]]]]

Wrong EPSG code because the correct EPSG code for svy21 should be 3414

mpsz3414 <- st_set_crs(mpsz, 3414)
Warning: st_crs<- : replacing crs does not reproject data; use st_transform for
that

Check the CSR again

st_crs(mpsz3414)
Coordinate Reference System:
  User input: EPSG:3414 
  wkt:
PROJCRS["SVY21 / Singapore TM",
    BASEGEOGCRS["SVY21",
        DATUM["SVY21",
            ELLIPSOID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
                LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
        ID["EPSG",4757]],
    CONVERSION["Singapore Transverse Mercator",
        METHOD["Transverse Mercator",
            ID["EPSG",9807]],
        PARAMETER["Latitude of natural origin",1.36666666666667,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8801]],
        PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",103.833333333333,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8802]],
        PARAMETER["Scale factor at natural origin",1,
            SCALEUNIT["unity",1],
            ID["EPSG",8805]],
        PARAMETER["False easting",28001.642,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8806]],
        PARAMETER["False northing",38744.572,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8807]]],
    CS[Cartesian,2],
        AXIS["northing (N)",north,
            ORDER[1],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
        AXIS["easting (E)",east,
            ORDER[2],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
    USAGE[
        SCOPE["Cadastre, engineering survey, topographic mapping."],
        AREA["Singapore - onshore and offshore."],
        BBOX[1.13,103.59,1.47,104.07]],
    ID["EPSG",3414]]

Transforming the projection of preschool from wgs84 to svy21

Let us perform the projection transformation by using the code chunk below.

  1. Print head of preschool
head(preschool, n=5)
Simple feature collection with 5 features and 2 fields
Geometry type: POINT
Dimension:     XYZ
Bounding box:  xmin: 103.8048 ymin: 1.299333 xmax: 103.8409 ymax: 1.435024
z_range:       zmin: 0 zmax: 0
Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84
   Name
1 kml_1
2 kml_2
3 kml_3
4 kml_4
5 kml_5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Description
1           <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILDREN'S COVE PRESCHOOL PTE.LTD.</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT9390</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>498CC9FE48CC94D4</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
2                    <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILDREN'S COVE PTE. LTD.</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT8675</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>22877550804213FD</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
3       <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILDREN'S VINEYARD PRESCHOOL PTE. LTD</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT9308</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>B2FE90E44AD494E3</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
4 <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILDTIME CARE & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE PTE.LTD.</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT9122</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>1384CDC0D14B76A1</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
5                               <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILTERN HOUSE</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT2070</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>FB24EAA6E73B2723</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
                       geometry
1 POINT Z (103.8072 1.299333 0)
2  POINT Z (103.826 1.312839 0)
3 POINT Z (103.8409 1.348843 0)
4 POINT Z (103.8048 1.435024 0)
5   POINT Z (103.839 1.33315 0)
  1. Transform the data
preschool3414 <- st_transform(preschool,                                crs = 3414)
  1. Display data
head(preschool3414, n=5)
Simple feature collection with 5 features and 2 fields
Geometry type: POINT
Dimension:     XYZ
Bounding box:  xmin: 24821.92 ymin: 31299.16 xmax: 28844.56 ymax: 46303.16
z_range:       zmin: 0 zmax: 0
Projected CRS: SVY21 / Singapore TM
   Name
1 kml_1
2 kml_2
3 kml_3
4 kml_4
5 kml_5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Description
1           <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILDREN'S COVE PRESCHOOL PTE.LTD.</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT9390</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>498CC9FE48CC94D4</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
2                    <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILDREN'S COVE PTE. LTD.</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT8675</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>22877550804213FD</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
3       <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILDREN'S VINEYARD PRESCHOOL PTE. LTD</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT9308</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>B2FE90E44AD494E3</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
4 <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILDTIME CARE & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE PTE.LTD.</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT9122</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>1384CDC0D14B76A1</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
5                               <center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'><em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>CENTRE_NAME</th> <td>CHILTERN HOUSE</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>CENTRE_CODE</th> <td>PT2070</td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3"> <th>INC_CRC</th> <td>FB24EAA6E73B2723</td> </tr><tr bgcolor=""> <th>FMEL_UPD_D</th> <td>20211201093631</td> </tr></table></center>
                       geometry
1 POINT Z (25089.46 31299.16 0)
2 POINT Z (27189.07 32792.54 0)
3 POINT Z (28844.56 36773.76 0)
4 POINT Z (24821.92 46303.16 0)
5 POINT Z (28637.82 35038.49 0)

Importing the aspatial data

Import listing data

listings <- read_csv("data/aspatial/listings.csv")
Rows: 3483 Columns: 18
── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Delimiter: ","
chr   (6): name, host_name, neighbourhood_group, neighbourhood, room_type, l...
dbl  (11): id, host_id, latitude, longitude, price, minimum_nights, number_o...
date  (1): last_review

ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
ℹ Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.

Examine the dataset after importing to see if it is imported correctly

Creating a simple feature data frame from an aspatial data frame

The code chunk below converts listing data frame into a simple feature data frame by using st_as_sf() of sf packages

listings_sf <- st_as_sf(listings, 
                       coords = c("longitude", "latitude"),
                       crs=4326) %>%
  st_transform(crs = 3414)

Examine the dataset below

glimpse(listings_sf)
Rows: 3,483
Columns: 17
$ id                             <dbl> 71609, 71896, 71903, 275343, 275344, 28…
$ name                           <chr> "Villa in Singapore · ★4.44 · 2 bedroom…
$ host_id                        <dbl> 367042, 367042, 367042, 1439258, 143925…
$ host_name                      <chr> "Belinda", "Belinda", "Belinda", "Kay",…
$ neighbourhood_group            <chr> "East Region", "East Region", "East Reg…
$ neighbourhood                  <chr> "Tampines", "Tampines", "Tampines", "Bu…
$ room_type                      <chr> "Private room", "Private room", "Privat…
$ price                          <dbl> 150, 80, 80, 55, 69, 220, 85, 75, 45, 7…
$ minimum_nights                 <dbl> 92, 92, 92, 60, 60, 92, 92, 60, 60, 92,…
$ number_of_reviews              <dbl> 20, 24, 47, 22, 17, 12, 133, 18, 6, 81,…
$ last_review                    <date> 2020-01-17, 2019-10-13, 2020-01-09, 20…
$ reviews_per_month              <dbl> 0.14, 0.16, 0.31, 0.17, 0.12, 0.09, 0.9…
$ calculated_host_listings_count <dbl> 5, 5, 5, 52, 52, 5, 7, 52, 52, 7, 7, 1,…
$ availability_365               <dbl> 89, 89, 89, 275, 274, 89, 365, 365, 365…
$ number_of_reviews_ltm          <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
$ license                        <chr> NA, NA, NA, "S0399", "S0399", NA, NA, "…
$ geometry                       <POINT [m]> POINT (41972.5 36390.05), POINT (…

Geoprocessing with sf package

sf package also offers a wide range of geoprocessing (also known as GIS analysis) functions.

In this section below, I will demonstrate how to perform two commonly used geoprocessing functions, namely buffering and point in polygon count.

Buffering

Scenario: The authority is planning to upgrade the exiting cycling path. To do so, they need to acquire 5 metres of reserved land on the both sides of the current cycling path. I am tasked to determine the extend of the land need to be acquired and their total area.

Solution:

  1. Firstly, st_buffer() of sf package is used to compute the 5-meter buffers around cycling paths
buffer_cycling <- st_buffer(cyclingpath,dist=5, nQuadSegs = 30)
  1. This is followed by calculating the area of the buffers as shown in the code chunk below.
buffer_cycling$AREA <- st_area(buffer_cycling)
  1. Lastly, sum() of Base R will be used to derive the total land involved
sum(buffer_cycling$AREA)
1774367 [m^2]

Point-in-polygon count

Scenario: A pre-school service group want to find out the numbers of pre-schools in each Planning Subzone.

Solution:

  1. The code chunk below performs two operations at one go. Firstly, identify pre-schools located inside each Planning Subzone by using st_intersects(). Next, length() of Base R is used to calculate numbers of pre-schools that fall inside each planning subzone.
mpsz3414$`PreSch Count`<- lengths(st_intersects(mpsz3414, preschool3414))
  1. Check the summary statistics of the newly derived PreSch Count field by using summary() as shown in the code chunk below.
summary(mpsz3414$`PreSch Count`)
   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
   0.00    0.00    4.00    7.09   10.00   72.00 
  1. To list the planning subzone with the most number of pre-school, the top_n() of dplyr package is used as shown in the code chunk below.
top_n(mpsz3414, 1, `PreSch Count`)
Simple feature collection with 1 feature and 16 fields
Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
Dimension:     XY
Bounding box:  xmin: 39655.33 ymin: 35966 xmax: 42940.57 ymax: 38622.37
Projected CRS: SVY21 / Singapore TM
  OBJECTID SUBZONE_NO     SUBZONE_N SUBZONE_C CA_IND PLN_AREA_N PLN_AREA_C
1      189          2 TAMPINES EAST    TMSZ02      N   TAMPINES         TM
     REGION_N REGION_C          INC_CRC FMEL_UPD_D   X_ADDR   Y_ADDR SHAPE_Leng
1 EAST REGION       ER 21658EAAF84F4D8D 2014-12-05 41122.55 37392.39   10180.62
  SHAPE_Area                       geometry PreSch Count
1    4339824 MULTIPOLYGON (((42196.76 38...           72

**DIY: Calculate the density of pre-school by planning subzone.

  1. Firstly, the code chunk below uses st_area() of sf package to derive the area of each planning subzone.
mpsz3414$Area <- mpsz3414 %>%   st_area()
  1. Next, mutate() of dplyr package is used to compute the density by using the code chunk below.
mpsz3414 <- mpsz3414 %>%   mutate(`PreSch Density` = `PreSch Count`/Area * 1000000)

Explorotary Data Analysis (EDA)

Firstly, we will plot a histogram to reveal the distribution of PreSch Density. Conventionally, hist() of R Graphics will be used as shown in the code chunk below.

hist(mpsz3414$`PreSch Density`)

In the code chunk below, appropriate ggplot2 functions will be used.

ggplot(data=mpsz3414, 
       aes(x= as.numeric(`PreSch Density`)))+
  geom_histogram(bins=20, 
                 color="black", 
                 fill="light blue") +
  labs(title = "Are pre-school even distributed in Singapore?",
       subtitle= "There are many planning sub-zones with a single pre-school, on the other hand, \nthere are two planning sub-zones with at least 20 pre-schools",
      x = "Pre-school density (per km sq)",
      y = "Frequency")

** Using ggplot2 method, plot a scatterplot showing the relationship between Pre-school Density and Pre-school Count.

ggplot(data=mpsz3414, 
       aes(y = `PreSch Count`, 
           x= as.numeric(`PreSch Density`)))+
  geom_point(color="black", 
             fill="light blue") +
  xlim(0, 40) +
  ylim(0, 40) +
  labs(title = "",
      x = "Pre-school density (per km sq)",
      y = "Pre-school count")
Warning: Removed 2 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).