Tidy Tuesday 07-20-21

Lessons learned in working with this dataset:

• Using lead (and lag in dplyr) to calculate values in the current row using values either in subsequent (or previous) rows. Works in combination with mutate, case_when and %in%
• How to embed html links in knit Rmd files

With the current drought, more of the country is designated as under D4 (exceptional) than any time since the drought of 2012, which was in turn the most widespread drought since 1956

There are very similar trends with the percentage of the population being affected by drought