R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data

R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data

<DIV><p>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. <i>R Graphics Cookbook</i> 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.</p><p>Author Winston Chang bases the book in part on his own website, <i>R Cookbook</i>. 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.</p></div>