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R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Name: R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd Edition
Author: Winston Chang
ISBN: 9781491978603

by Winston Chang

November 2018

Beginner to intermediate

441 pages

9h 25m

English

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Preface
RecipesSoftware and Platform NotesConventions Used in This BookO’ReillyHow to Contact UsAcknowledgments
1. R Basics
1.1. Installing a Package1.2. Loading a Package1.3. Upgrading Packages1.4. Loading a Delimited Text Data File1.5. Loading Data from an Excel File1.6. Loading Data from SPSS/SAS/Stata Files1.7. Chaining Functions Together with %>%, the Pipe Operator
2. Quickly Exploring Data
2.1. Creating a Scatter Plot2.2. Creating a Line Graph2.3. Creating a Bar Graph2.4. Creating a Histogram2.5. Creating a Box Plot2.6. Plotting a Function Curve
3. Bar Graphs
3.1. Making a Basic Bar Graph3.2. Grouping Bars Together3.3. Making a Bar Graph of Counts3.4. Using Colors in a Bar Graph3.5. Coloring Negative and Positive Bars Differently3.6. Adjusting Bar Width and Spacing3.7. Making a Stacked Bar Graph3.8. Making a Proportional Stacked Bar Graph3.9. Adding Labels to a Bar Graph3.10. Making a Cleveland Dot Plot
4. Line Graphs
4.1. Making a Basic Line Graph4.2. Adding Points to a Line Graph4.3. Making a Line Graph with Multiple Lines4.4. Changing the Appearance of Lines4.5. Changing the Appearance of Points4.6. Making a Graph with a Shaded Area4.7. Making a Stacked Area Graph4.8. Making a Proportional Stacked Area Graph4.9. Adding a Confidence Region
5. Scatter Plots
5.1. Making a Basic Scatter Plot5.2. Grouping Points Together Using Shapes or Colors5.3. Using Different Point Shapes5.4. Mapping a Continuous Variable to Color or Size5.5. Dealing with Overplotting5.6. Adding Fitted Regression Model Lines5.7. Adding Fitted Lines from an Existing Model5.8. Adding Fitted Lines from Multiple Existing Models5.9. Adding Annotations with Model Coefficients5.10. Adding Marginal Rugs to a Scatter Plot5.11. Labeling Points in a Scatter Plot5.12. Creating a Balloon Plot5.13. Making a Scatter Plot Matrix
6. Summarized Data Distributions
6.1. Making a Basic Histogram6.2. Making Multiple Histograms from Grouped Data6.3. Making a Density Curve6.4. Making Multiple Density Curves from Grouped Data6.5. Making a Frequency Polygon6.6. Making a Basic Box Plot6.7. Adding Notches to a Box Plot6.8. Adding Means to a Box Plot6.9. Making a Violin Plot6.10. Making a Dot Plot6.11. Making Multiple Dot Plots for Grouped Data6.12. Making a Density Plot of Two-Dimensional Data
7. Annotations
7.1. Adding Text Annotations7.2. Using Mathematical Expressions in Annotations7.3. Adding Lines7.4. Adding Line Segments and Arrows7.5. Adding a Shaded Rectangle7.6. Highlighting an Item7.7. Adding Error Bars7.8. Adding Annotations to Individual Facets
8. Axes
8.1. Swapping X- and Y-Axes8.2. Setting the Range of a Continuous Axis8.3. Reversing a Continuous Axis8.4. Changing the Order of Items on a Categorical Axis8.5. Setting the Scaling Ratio of the X- and Y-Axes8.6. Setting the Positions of Tick Marks8.7. Removing Tick Marks and Labels8.8. Changing the Text of Tick Labels8.9. Changing the Appearance of Tick Labels8.10. Changing the Text of Axis Labels8.11. Removing Axis Labels8.12. Changing the Appearance of Axis Labels8.13. Showing Lines Along the Axes8.14. Using a Logarithmic Axis8.15. Adding Ticks for a Logarithmic Axis8.16. Making a Circular Plot8.17. Using Dates on an Axis8.18. Using Relative Times on an Axis
9. Controlling the Overall Appearance of Graphs
9.1. Setting the Title of a Graph9.2. Changing the Appearance of Text9.3. Using Themes9.4. Changing the Appearance of Theme Elements9.5. Creating Your Own Themes9.6. Hiding Grid Lines

10. Legends
10.1. Removing the Legend10.2. Changing the Position of a Legend10.3. Changing the Order of Items in a Legend10.4. Reversing the Order of Items in a Legend10.5. Changing a Legend Title10.6. Changing the Appearance of a Legend Title10.7. Removing a Legend Title10.8. Changing the Labels in a Legend10.9. Changing the Appearance of Legend Labels10.10. Using Labels with Multiple Lines of Text
11. Facets
11.1. Splitting Data into Subplots with Facets11.2. Using Facets with Different Axes11.3. Changing the Text of Facet Labels11.4. Changing the Appearance of Facet Labels and Headers
12. Using Colors in Plots
12.1. Setting the Colors of Objects12.2. Representing Variables with Colors12.3. Using a Colorblind-Friendly Palette12.4. Using a Different Palette for a Discrete Variable12.5. Using a Manually Defined Palette for a Discrete Variable12.6. Using a Manually Defined Palette for a Continuous Variable12.7. Coloring a Shaded Region Based on Value
13. Miscellaneous Graphs
13.1. Making a Correlation Matrix13.2. Plotting a Function13.3. Shading a Subregion Under a Function Curve13.4. Creating a Network Graph13.5. Using Text Labels in a Network Graph13.6. Creating a Heat Map13.7. Creating a Three-Dimensional Scatter Plot13.8. Adding a Prediction Surface to a Three-Dimensional Plot13.9. Saving a Three-Dimensional Plot13.10. Animating a Three-Dimensional Plot13.11. Creating a Dendrogram13.12. Creating a Vector Field13.13. Creating a QQ Plot13.14. Creating a Graph of an Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function13.15. Creating a Mosaic Plot13.16. Creating a Pie Chart13.17. Creating a Map13.18. Creating a Choropleth Map13.19. Making a Map with a Clean Background13.20. Creating a Map from a Shapefile
14. Output for Presentation
14.1. Outputting to PDF Vector Files14.2. Outputting to SVG Vector Files14.3. Outputting to WMF Vector Files14.4. Editing a Vector Output File14.5. Outputting to Bitmap (PNG/TIFF) Files14.6. Using Fonts in PDF Files14.7. Using Fonts in Windows Bitmap or Screen Output14.8. Combining Several Plots into the Same Graphic
15. Getting Your Data into Shape
15.1. Creating a Data Frame15.2. Getting Information About a Data Structure15.3. Adding a Column to a Data Frame15.4. Deleting a Column from a Data Frame15.5. Renaming Columns in a Data Frame15.6. Reordering Columns in a Data Frame15.7. Getting a Subset of a Data Frame15.8. Changing the Order of Factor Levels15.9. Changing the Order of Factor Levels Based on Data Values15.10. Changing the Names of Factor Levels15.11. Removing Unused Levels from a Factor15.12. Changing the Names of Items in a Character Vector15.13. Recoding a Categorical Variable to Another Categorical Variable15.14. Recoding a Continuous Variable to a Categorical Variable15.15. Calculating New Columns from Existing Columns15.16. Calculating New Columns by Groups15.17. Summarizing Data by Groups15.18. Summarizing Data with Standard Errors and Confidence Intervals15.19. Converting Data from Wide to Long15.20. Converting Data from Long to Wide15.21. Converting a Time Series Object to Times and Values
Understanding ggplot2
BackgroundSome Terminology and TheoryBuilding a Simple PlotPrintingStatsThemesEnd
Index

Overview

This O’Reilly cookbook provides more than 150 recipes to help scientists, engineers, programmers, and data analysts 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 in this second edition use the updated version of the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to make graphs in R. You’ll also find expanded content about the visual design of graphics. If you have at least a basic understanding of the R language, you’re ready to get started with this easy-to-use reference.

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 more
Provide annotations to help viewers interpret data
Control the overall appearance of graphics
Explore options for using colors in plots
Create network graphs, heat maps, and 3D scatter plots
Get your data into shape using packages from the tidyverse

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