Spending on Education in the US

This repo contains the code to re-create my entry into RStudio's Table Contest for 2020.

For full details on the data and a step-by-step guide on how I customised the table, please see my blogpost: https://davidsmale.netlify.app/portfolio/spending-on-education/

Data was processed using the {tidyverse} packages, and the table was built with the {gt} package.

This repo contains 3 files:

• education_spend_table.R - The code to read-in and process data and render a table in HTML
• education_spend_table_png.R - Almost identical to the above, but with minor changes to render table as a png file. The minor changes include:
  • Lightening the background of the ggplots because otherwise these backgrounds were being rendered too dark.
  • Changing font of the source note using opt_table_font. I found this was the only to adjust font of source note. However, on my blog this option was still being overwritten by the default font of my blog.
• education_spend_table.png - The rendered png of the table: