This lab was an introduction to using R programming software to clean, explore, manipulate, summarize, and visualize data. We were given a spreadsheet of bird count data for several islands in the Galapagos. For part 1, we were tasked with cleaning the data in R, importing it to ArcGISPro to tabulate or join the shapefile of the Galapagos with the bird data, then importing it back into R to make a table of land cover types represented at the observation point and a graph showing the percentage of land cover using the tabulated areas within the buffers around the points. This involved making a new object where the total area of all land covers for each species is saved to convert area to percentages, making a new column to calculate the percentages of each land cover for the selected bird species, and generating the graph of percent land cover at observation sites using ggplot. 

For part 2, we had to use R to answer our own question about the data. I chose to explore the distribution of Galapagos finches on agricultural land cover.