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R in a Nutshell
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R in a Nutshell

by Joseph Adler
January 2010
Beginner
634 pages
19h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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In the early 1990s, Richard Becker and William Cleveland (two researchers at Bell Labs) built a revolutionary new system for displaying data called Trellis graphics. (You can find more information about the Trellis software at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/project/trellis/.) Cleveland devised a number of novel plots for visualizing data based on research into how users visualize information.[41]

The lattice package is an implementation of Trellis graphics in R.[42] You may notice that some functions still contain the Trellis name. The lattice package includes many types of charts that will be familiar to most readers such as scatter plots, bar charts, and histograms. But it also includes some plots that you may not have seen before such as dot plots, strip plots, and quantile-quantile plots. This chapter will show you how to use different types of charts, familiar and unfamiliar, in the lattice package.

[41] See [Cleveland1993] for more information.

[42] It’s not exactly the same as the S version, but unless you want to use old S/S+ code, the differences will probably not matter to you.

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