R Graphics Cookbook
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (January 3, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449316956
- ISBN-13: 978-1449316952
eBook Description:
R Graphics Cookbook
- 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
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.
R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data
- 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
R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data
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.
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