R Programming Fundamentals

Creating Base Plots

R can plot data without installing any additional packages. This is commonly referred to as base plotting. It is called base plotting because, like functions that come pre-installed with R in the base package, discussed in Chapter 1, Introduction to R, these plots are built into R. The graphics package comes with a download of R and enables you to plot data without installing any other packages.

To see details on the graphics package, you can search for R graphics package in a search engine of your choice or navigate to the following URL: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/graphics/html/00Index.html.

Base plots are often not used outside of work done for data cleaning and EDA. Many data scientists use other ...