Analyzing Baseball Data with R

3Traditional Graphics

Contents

1. 3.1 Introduction
2. 3.2 Factor Variable
   1. 3.2.1 A bar graph
   2. 3.2.2 Add axes labels and a title
   3. 3.2.3 Other graphs of a factor
3. 3.3 Saving Graphs
4. 3.4 Dot plots
5. 3.5 Numeric Variable: Stripchart and Histogram
6. 3.6 Two Numeric Variables
   1. 3.6.1 Scatterplot
   2. 3.6.2 Building a graph, step-by-step
7. 3.7 A Numeric Variable and a Factor Variable
   1. 3.7.1 Parallel stripcharts
   2. 3.7.2 Parallel boxplots
8. 3.8 Comparing Ruth, Aaron, Bonds, and A-Rod
   1. 3.8.1 Getting the data
   2. 3.8.2 Creating the player data frames
   3. 3.8.3 Constructing the graph
9. 3.9 The 1998 Home Run Race
   1. 3.9.1 Getting the data
   2. 3.9.2 Extracting the variables
   3. 3.9.3 Constructing the graph
10. 3.10 Further Reading
11. 3.11 Exercises

3.1 Introduction

To illustrate basic methods for creating graphs in R in the graphics ...