Basic skills in R: Basic graphics
Beyond basic graphics
There are various packages that extend the visualization system in base R. Among these, there are packages which contain a number of handy additional functions (sometimes for a specialist task, like network-visualization), but also systems which a radically different design philosophy.
This is a brief list of excellent resources to learn more:
This is a brief list of excellent resources to learn more:
- Great book by Rob Kabacoff, both basic and advanced with examples & code: https://rkabacoff.github.io/datavis/
- R graphics cookbook by Winston Chang, with effective recipes: https://r-graphics.org/
- Graphical overview with example figures and code ordered by graph type: https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/
- Compact tutorial, presenting both the lattice and ggplot2 systems: see e.g. https://www.datavis.ca/courses/RGraphics/
- Many types of interactive graphs, with plotly: https://plotly.com/r/; or r2d3: https://rstudio.github.io/r2d3/
- 3D interactive graphs: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgl/vignettes/rgl.html
- Visualizing geodata: https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/
- Visualizing networks: https://kateto.net/network-visualization
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