diff --git a/analysis.R b/analysis.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b61ea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/analysis.R
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+library(tidyverse)
+load("rdas/murders.rda")
+
+murders %>% mutate(abb = reorder(abb, rate)) %>%
+  ggplot(aes(abb, rate)) +
+  geom_bar(width = 0.5, stat = "identity", color = "black") +
+  coord_flip()
+  
+ggsave("figs/barplot.png")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/data/murders.csv b/data/murders.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8045266
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/murders.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+state,abb,region,population,total
+Alabama,AL,South,4779736,135
+Alaska,AK,West,710231,19
+Arizona,AZ,West,6392017,232
+Arkansas,AR,South,2915918,93
+California,CA,West,37253956,1257
+Colorado,CO,West,5029196,65
+Connecticut,CT,Northeast,3574097,97
+Delaware,DE,South,897934,38
+District of Columbia,DC,South,601723,99
+Florida,FL,South,19687653,669
+Georgia,GA,South,9920000,376
+Hawaii,HI,West,1360301,7
+Idaho,ID,West,1567582,12
+Illinois,IL,North Central,12830632,364
+Indiana,IN,North Central,6483802,142
+Iowa,IA,North Central,3046355,21
+Kansas,KS,North Central,2853118,63
+Kentucky,KY,South,4339367,116
+Louisiana,LA,South,4533372,351
+Maine,ME,Northeast,1328361,11
+Maryland,MD,South,5773552,293
+Massachusetts,MA,Northeast,6547629,118
+Michigan,MI,North Central,9883640,413
+Minnesota,MN,North Central,5303925,53
+Mississippi,MS,South,2967297,120
+Missouri,MO,North Central,5988927,321
+Montana,MT,West,989415,12
+Nebraska,NE,North Central,1826341,32
+Nevada,NV,West,2700551,84
+New Hampshire,NH,Northeast,1316470,5
+New Jersey,NJ,Northeast,8791894,246
+New Mexico,NM,West,2059179,67
+New York,NY,Northeast,19378102,517
+North Carolina,NC,South,9535483,286
+North Dakota,ND,North Central,672591,4
+Ohio,OH,North Central,11536504,310
+Oklahoma,OK,South,3751351,111
+Oregon,OR,West,3831074,36
+Pennsylvania,PA,Northeast,12702379,457
+Rhode Island,RI,Northeast,1052567,16
+South Carolina,SC,South,4625364,207
+South Dakota,SD,North Central,814180,8
+Tennessee,TN,South,6346105,219
+Texas,TX,South,25145561,805
+Utah,UT,West,2763885,22
+Vermont,VT,Northeast,625741,2
+Virginia,VA,South,8001024,250
+Washington,WA,West,6724540,93
+West Virginia,WV,South,1852994,27
+Wisconsin,WI,North Central,5686986,97
+Wyoming,WY,West,563626,5
diff --git a/download-data.R b/download-data.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b329453
--- /dev/null
+++ b/download-data.R
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+url <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rafalab/dslabs/master/inst/extdata/murders.csv"
+destination_file <- "data/murders.csv"
+download.file(url, destination_file)
diff --git a/murders.Rproj b/murders.Rproj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e3c2eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/murders.Rproj
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: Default
+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 2
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: Sweave
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
diff --git a/new-file.txt b/new-file.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..499adea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/new-file.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+test
+adding a line
diff --git a/rdas/murders.rda b/rdas/murders.rda
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b091686
Binary files /dev/null and b/rdas/murders.rda differ
diff --git a/report.Rmd b/report.Rmd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..661d06c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/report.Rmd
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+title: "Report on Gun Murders"
+author: "Rafael Irizarry"
+date: "`r format(Sys.Date())`"
+output: github_document
+---
+
+```{r setup, include=FALSE}
+knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
+```
+
+## Introduction
+
+This is a report on 2010 gun murder rates obtained from FBI reports. The original data was obtained from [this Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_United_States_by_state).
+
+We are going to use the following library:
+
+```{r loading-libs, message=FALSE}
+library(tidyverse)
+```
+  
+and load the data we already wrangled:
+
+```{r}
+load("rdas/murders.rda")
+```
+
+## Murder rate by state 
+
+We note the large state to state variability by generating a barplot showing the murder rate by state:
+
+```{r murder-rate-by-state, echo=FALSE}
+murders %>% mutate(abb = reorder(abb, rate)) %>%
+  ggplot(aes(abb, rate)) +
+  geom_bar(width = 0.5, stat = "identity", color = "black") +
+  coord_flip()
+```
+
diff --git a/report.md b/report.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d715fa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/report.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Report on Gun Murders
+================
+Rafael Irizarry
+2018-04-16
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+This is a report on 2010 gun murder rates obtained from FBI reports. The original data was obtained from [this Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_United_States_by_state).
+
+We are going to use the following library:
+
+``` r
+library(tidyverse)
+```
+
+and load the data we already wrangled:
+
+``` r
+load("rdas/murders.rda")
+```
+
+Murder rate by state
+--------------------
+
+We note the large state to state variability by generating a barplot showing the murder rate by state:
+
+![](report_files/figure-markdown_github/murder-rate-by-state-1.png)
diff --git a/report_files/figure-markdown_github/murder-rate-by-state-1.png b/report_files/figure-markdown_github/murder-rate-by-state-1.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a0d73fc
Binary files /dev/null and b/report_files/figure-markdown_github/murder-rate-by-state-1.png differ
diff --git a/tmp.txt b/tmp.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ed041f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tmp.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+temporary
diff --git a/wrangle-data.R b/wrangle-data.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53ed991
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wrangle-data.R
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+library(tidyverse)
+murders <- read_csv("data/murders.csv")
+murders <-murders %>% mutate(region = factor(region),
+                             rate = total / population * 10^5)
+save(murders, file = "rdas/murders.rda")