Learn RStudio IDE: Quick, Effective, and Productive Data Science

© Matthew Campbell 2019

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7. Data Visualization

Matthew Campbell¹ 

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Yardley, PA, USA

 

One of the most appealing elements for RStudio users is the rich library of data visualization tools that are available. In this chapter, we are going to highlight major graphic tools that will inform most of your daily work. Of course, in the R ecosystem we have hundreds of additional libraries and specialized packages that may be used for visualization.

For now, we will focus on the tools that will have the most impact on you immediately starting with ggplot2 (a tidyverse package). From there, we will move on to packages that give you more control of your visualizations at the cost of requiring ...