R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data

ISBN: 1491978600

Author: Chang, Winston

Condition: New

This OReilly cookbook provides more than 150 recipes to help scientists, engineers, programmers, and data analysts generate high-quality graphs quickly-without having to comb through all the details of Rs graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.Most of the recipes in this second edition use the updated version of the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to make graphs in R. Youll also find expanded content about the visual design of graphics. If you have at least a basic understanding of the R language, youre ready to get started with this easy-to-use reference. Use Rs default graphics for quick exploration of data Create a variety of bar graphs, line graphs, and scatter plots Summarize data distributions with histograms, density curves, box plots, and more Provide annotations to help viewers interpret data Control the overall appearance of graphics Explore options for using colors in plots Create network graphs, heat maps, and 3D scatter plots Get your data into shape using packages from the tidyverse