Error in ggplot iris aes x Species y Sepal Length could not find function ggplot

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to plot my dataset using ggplot, but it is showing me the below error.

ggplot(iris, aes(x = Species, y = Sepal.Length)) + geom_boxplot() + theme_bw()
Error in ggplot(iris, aes(x = Species, y = Sepal.Length)) : 
could not find function "ggplot"

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You have to install ggplot module in your r studio. You can use the below-given code.

> install.packages("ggplot2")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Nadeem Akhter/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
package ‘pkgbuild’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘rprojroot’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘rstudioapi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘evaluate’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘pkgload’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘praise’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Nadeem Akhter\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmps3pgcC\downloaded_packages

Hope this will help.