R Graphs cookbook : over 70 recipes for building and customizing publication-quality visualizations of powerful and stunning R graphs /: over 70 recipes for building and customizing publication-quality visualizations of powerful and stunning R graphs. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Over 70 recipes for building and customizing publication-quality visualizations of powerful and stunning R graphs
• Further Information: Note: Jaynal Abedin, Hrishi V. Mittal.
• Other Names: Abedin, Jaynal; Mittal, Hrishi V
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: R Graphics; Base graphics using the default package; Trellis graphs using lattice; Graphs inspired by Grammar of Graphics; Chapter 2: Basic Graph Functions; Introduction; Creating scatter plots; Creating line graphs; Creating bar charts; Creating histograms and density plots; Creating box plots; Adjusting x and y axes' limits; Creating heat maps; Creating pairs plots; Creating multiple plot matrix layouts; Adding and formatting legends; Creating graphs with maps. Saving and exporting graphsChapter 3: Beyond the Basics -- Adjusting Key Parameters; Introduction; Setting colors of points, lines, and bars; Setting plot background colors; Setting colors for text elements -- axis annotations, labels, plot titles, and legends; Choosing color combinations and palettes; Setting fonts for annotations and titles; Choosing plotting point symbol styles and sizes; Choosing line styles and width; Choosing box styles; Adjusting axis annotations and tick marks; Formatting log axes; Setting graph margins and dimensions; Chapter 4: Creating Scatter Plots; Introduction. Grouping data points within a scatter plotHighlighting grouped data points by size and symbol type; Labeling data points; Correlation matrix using pairs plots; Adding error bars; Using jitter to distinguish closely packed data points; Adding linear model lines; Adding nonlinear model curves; Adding nonparametric model curves with lowess; Creating three-dimensional scatter plots; Creating Quantile-Quantile plots; Displaying the data density on axes; Creating scatter plots with a smoothed density representation; Chapter 5: Creating Line Graphs and Time Series Charts; Introduction. Adding customized legends for multiple-line graphsUsing margin labels instead of legends for multiple-line graphs; Adding horizontal and vertical grid lines; Adding marker lines at specific x and y values using abline; Creating sparklines; Plotting functions of a variable in a dataset; Formatting time series data for plotting; Plotting the date or time variable on the x axis; Annotating axis labels in different human-readable time formats; Adding vertical markers to indicate specific time events; Plotting data with varying time-averaging periods; Creating stock charts. Chapter 6: Creating Bar, Dot, and Pie ChartsIntroduction; Creating bar charts with more than one factor variable; Creating stacked bar charts; Adjusting the orientation of bars -- horizontal and vertical; Adjusting bar widths, spacing, colors, and borders; Displaying values on top of or next to the bars; Placing labels inside bars; Creating bar charts with vertical error bars; Modifying dot charts by grouping variables; Making better, readable pie charts with clockwise-ordered slices; Labeling a pie chart with percentage values for each slice; Adding a legend to a pie chart.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, U.K : Packt Pub
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (v, 353 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 519.502855133; COMPUTERS -- Mathematical & Statistical Software; R (Computer program language); Information visualization; Computer graphics; Computer graphics; Graphic methods -- Data processing; R (Computer program language); MATHEMATICS -- Applied; MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Computer graphics; Information visualization; R (Computer program language); COMPUTERS -- Desktop Applications -- Design & Graphics; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Open Source; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783988792; 1783988797; 1783988789; 9781783988785
• Related ISBNs: 9781783988785
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from cover page (Safari, viewed Nov. 18, 2014).; Note: Print version record.
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