ggplot2 by Hadley Wickham

ggplot2 by Hadley Wickham

This new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio. ggplot2 is a data visualization package for R that helps users create data graphics, including those that are multi-layered, with ease. With ggplot2, it's easy to: 

• produce handsome, publication-quality plots with automatic legends created from the plot specification
• superimpose multiple layers (points, lines, maps, tiles, box plots) from different data sources with automatically adjusted common scales
• add customizable smoothers that use powerful modeling capabilities of R, such as loess, linear models, generalized additive models, and robust regression
• save any ggplot2 plot (or part thereof) for later modification or reuse
• create custom themes that capture in-house or journal style requirements and that can easily be applied to multiple plots
• approach a graph from a visual perspective, thinking about how eachcomponent of the data is represented on the final plot

This book will be useful to everyone who has struggled with displaying data in an informative and attractive way. Some basic knowledge of R is necessary (e.g., importing data into R).  ggplot2 is a mini-language specifically tailored for producing graphics, and you'll learn everything you need in the book. After reading this book you'll be able to produce graphics customized precisely for your problems, and you'll find it easy to get graphics out of your head and on to the screen or page.

“The versatility and efficiency of ggplot have led to the development of ggplot2 and this book which overviews the standard use and presentation secrets of functions developed in the last 5 years… The book is written in an accessible manner and it is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers with some R experience. All theoretical concepts are accompanied by code making it easy to learn by reproducing the examples.” (Irina Ioana Mohorianu, zbMATH 1397.62006, 2018)

“The book is an excellent and very comprehensive manual of … one of the most popular R packages. It is currently the only book describing ggplot2 in such depth. The book contains many examples and is very nicelyillustrated, demonstrating the strength of the package.” (Klaus Galensa, Computing Reviews, May, 2017)

Hadley Wickham is the Chief Scientist at RStudio and a Rice University Associate Professor of Statistics. Hadley is passionate in creating computational and cognitive tools that make data preparation, visualization, and analysis more efficient. Carson Sievert is a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. He has built 15 R programs and earned the John Chambers Prize for Statistical Computation in 2006 for his work on the ggplot and reshape R packages. R utilities for obtaining data from the Web (pitchRx, bbscrapeR, XML2R), building interactive Web visuals (animint, plotly), and visualizations for analyzing statistical models (LDAvis) are among his accomplishments.

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ISBN 13	9783319242750
ISBN 10	331924275X
Title	ggplot2
Author	Hadley Wickham
Series	Use R!
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2016-06-16
Number of pages	260
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.