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

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M. TollefsonVisualizing Data in R 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6831-5_12

Plots for Continuous Variables

Margot Tollefson¹  

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Stratford, IA, USA

 

In Table B-1, functions that create graphics for continuous variables are given. Continuous variables are any kind of numeric variable.

Table B-1

Functions for plotting continuous variables

Function Name	Description
boxplot( )	For a numeric vector (x), multiple numeric vectors separated by commas (…), a list of numeric vectors (x), or a formula with a numeric vector on the left and one or more categorical variables (can be numeric) on the right (formula).  Plots boxplots for the variable(s) in the first three cases.  Plots boxplots of the variable on the left by the variable(s) ...