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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherO'reilly Media, Incorporated
ISBN-101449316956
ISBN-139781449316952
eBay Product ID (ePID)117210252
Product Key Features
Number of Pages411 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameR Graphics Cookbook : Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data
Publication Year2013
SubjectProgramming Languages / General, Programming / General, Data Modeling & Design, Mathematical & Statistical Software, Probability & Statistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMathematics, Computers
AuthorWinston Chang
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight24.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal519.502855133
SynopsisThis practical guide provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R's graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works. Most of the recipes use the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to make graphs in R. If you have a basic understanding of the R language, you're ready to get started. Use R's default graphics for quick exploration of data Create a variety of bar graphs, line graphs, and scatter plots Summarize data distributions with histograms, density curves, box plots, and other examples Provide annotations to help viewers interpret data Control the overall appearance of graphics Render data groups alongside each other for easy comparison Use colors in plots Create network graphs, heat maps, and 3D scatter plots Structure data for graphing, R Graphics Cookbook serves as a practical guide to help you make graphs quickly, without having to spend time learning about all the details of the R graphing systems. Author Winston Chang bases the book in part on his own website, R Cookbook. He also includes coverage of the ggplot2 package, a more powerful and flexible way to make graphs in R., In the last few years, the R programming language has gained a lot of mindshare among people who need to manipulate and analyze data. One reason for this growth is that R has many tools for generating generate high-quality graphs. R Graphics Cookbook serves as a practical guide to help you make graphs quickly, without having to spend time learning about all the details of the R graphing systems. Author Winston Chang bases the book in part on his own website, R Cookbook. He also includes coverage of the ggplot2 package, a more powerful and flexible way to make graphs in R. For situations where this is not the best option, Chang provides readers with simple versions of the non-ggplot2 alternatives.