R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data

Chang, Winston

ISBN 10: 1449316956 / ISBN 13: 9781449316952

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2013

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Synopsis:

This practical guide provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R’s 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 use the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to make graphs in R. If you have a basic understanding of the R language, you’re ready to get started.

• Use R’s 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 other examples
• Provide annotations to help viewers interpret data
• Control the overall appearance of graphics
• Render data groups alongside each other for easy comparison
• Use colors in plots
• Create network graphs, heat maps, and 3D scatter plots
• Structure data for graphing

About the Author: Winston Chang is presently a graduate student studying cognitive psychology at Northwestern University. During his time as a graduate student, he created a website called "R Cookbook", which contains snippets of code to handle common tasks in R. In previous lives, he's been a philosophy graduate student and a computer programmer.

Bibliographic Details

Title: R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for ...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good