Chapter 1

An Introduction to R Graphics

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This chapter provides the most basic information to get started producing plots in R. First of all, there is a three-line code example that demonstrates the fundamental steps involved in producing a plot. This is followed by a series of figures to demonstrate the range of images that R can produce. There is also a section on the organization of R graphics giving information on where to look for a particular function.

The following code provides a simple example of how to produce a plot using R (see Figure 1.1).

Figure 1.1

Figure showing a simple scatterplot of vapor pressure of mercury as a function of temperature. The plot is produced from two simple R expressions: one expression to draw the basic plot, consisting of axes, data symbols, and bounding rectangle, and another expression to add the text label within the plot.

A simple scatterplot of vapor pressure of mercury as a function ...

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