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M. TollefsonVisualizing Data in R 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6831-5_1

1. Introduction: plot( ), qplot( ), and ggplot( ), Plus Some

Margot Tollefson1  
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Stratford, IA, USA
 

R provides many ways to visualize data. Graphics in the R language are generated by functions. Some functions create useful visualizations almost instantly. Other functions combine together to create highly coded sophisticated images. This book shows you how to generate both types of objects.

In the first part of this book, we look in detail at the plot() function – the most basic and versatile of the plotting functions. The functions par(), layout(), and split.screen(), which set global plotting parameters and layout options, are also described, ...

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