Visualizing Data in R 4: Graphics Using the base, graphics, stats, and ggplot2 Packages

© Margot Tollefson 2021

M. TollefsonVisualizing Data in R 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6831-5_10

10. Formatting and Plot Management Tools

Margot Tollefson¹  

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Stratford, IA, USA

 

This chapter covers a number of ways to make choices about the appearance of a plot, some grouping and calculation tools, creating automatic functions for a specific class of objects, and creating object-oriented prototype functions. The chapter is split into three sections.

The first section gives an overview of the scale_, coord_, and guide_ functions along with related functions. The second section covers functions that cut data vectors into levels, summarize data vectors, and facet data vectors by faceting variables. The third section goes over functions to save, ...