R Graphics Cookbook by Chang, Winston -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

R Graphics Cookbook Preface

Recipes Software and Platform Notes Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. R Basics

Installing a Package

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Loading a Package

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Loading a Delimited Text Data File

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Loading Data from an Excel File

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Loading Data from an SPSS File

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2. Quickly Exploring Data

Creating a Scatter Plot

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Creating a Line Graph

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Creating a Bar Graph

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Creating a Histogram

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Creating a Box Plot

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Plotting a Function Curve

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3. Bar Graphs

Making a Basic Bar Graph

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Grouping Bars Together

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Making a Bar Graph of Counts

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Using Colors in a Bar Graph

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Coloring Negative and Positive Bars Differently

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Adjusting Bar Width and Spacing

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Making a Stacked Bar Graph

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Making a Proportional Stacked Bar Graph

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Adding Labels to a Bar Graph

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Making a Cleveland Dot Plot

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4. Line Graphs

Making a Basic Line Graph

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Adding Points to a Line Graph

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Making a Line Graph with Multiple Lines

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Changing the Appearance of Lines

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Changing the Appearance of Points

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Making a Graph with a Shaded Area

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Making a Stacked Area Graph

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Making a Proportional Stacked Area Graph

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Adding a Confidence Region

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5. Scatter Plots

Making a Basic Scatter Plot

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Grouping Data Points by a Variable Using Shape or Color

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Using Different Point Shapes

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Mapping a Continuous Variable to Color or Size

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Dealing with Overplotting

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Adding Fitted Regression Model Lines

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Adding Fitted Lines from an Existing Model

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Adding Fitted Lines from Multiple Existing Models

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Adding Annotations with Model Coefficients

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Adding Marginal Rugs to a Scatter Plot

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Labeling Points in a Scatter Plot

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Creating a Balloon Plot

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Making a Scatter Plot Matrix

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6. Summarized Data Distributions

Making a Basic Histogram

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Making Multiple Histograms from Grouped Data

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Making a Density Curve

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Making Multiple Density Curves from Grouped Data

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Making a Frequency Polygon

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Making a Basic Box Plot

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Adding Notches to a Box Plot

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Adding Means to a Box Plot

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Making a Violin Plot

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Making a Dot Plot

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Making Multiple Dot Plots for Grouped Data

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Making a Density Plot of Two-Dimensional Data

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7. Annotations

Adding Text Annotations

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Using Mathematical Expressions in Annotations

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Adding Lines

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Adding Line Segments and Arrows

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Adding a Shaded Rectangle

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Highlighting an Item

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Adding Error Bars

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Adding Annotations to Individual Facets

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8. Axes

Swapping X- and Y-Axes

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Setting the Range of a Continuous Axis

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Reversing a Continuous Axis

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Changing the Order of Items on a Categorical Axis

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Setting the Scaling Ratio of the X- and Y-Axes

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Setting the Positions of Tick Marks

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Removing Tick Marks and Labels

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Changing the Text of Tick Labels

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Changing the Appearance of Tick Labels

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Changing the Text of Axis Labels

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Removing Axis Labels

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Changing the Appearance of Axis Labels

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Showing Lines Along the Axes

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Using a Logarithmic Axis

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Adding Ticks for a Logarithmic Axis

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Making a Circular Graph

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Using Dates on an Axis

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Using Relative Times on an Axis

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9. Controlling the Overall Appearance of Graphs

Setting the Title of a Graph

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Changing the Appearance of Text

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Using Themes

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Changing the Appearance of Theme Elements

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Creating Your Own Themes

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Hiding Grid Lines

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10. Legends

Removing the Legend

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Changing the Position of a Legend

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Changing the Order of Items in a Legend

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Reversing the Order of Items in a Legend

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Changing a Legend Title

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Changing the Appearance of a Legend Title

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Removing a Legend Title

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Changing the Labels in a Legend

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Changing the Appearance of Legend Labels

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Using Labels with Multiple Lines of Text

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11. Facets

Splitting Data into Subplots with Facets

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Using Facets with Different Axes

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Changing the Text of Facet Labels

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Changing the Appearance of Facet Labels and Headers

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12. Using Colors in Plots

Setting the Colors of Objects

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Mapping Variables to Colors

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Using a Different Palette for a Discrete Variable

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Using a Manually Defined Palette for a Discrete Variable

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Using a Colorblind-Friendly Palette

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Using a Manually Defined Palette for a Continuous Variable

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Coloring a Shaded Region Based on Value

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13. Miscellaneous Graphs

Making a Correlation Matrix

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Plotting a Function

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Shading a Subregion Under a Function Curve

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Creating a Network Graph

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Using Text Labels in a Network Graph

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Creating a Heat Map

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Creating a Three-Dimensional Scatter Plot

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Adding a Prediction Surface to a Three-Dimensional Plot

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Saving a Three-Dimensional Plot

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Animating a Three-Dimensional Plot

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Creating a Dendrogram

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Creating a Vector Field

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Creating a QQ Plot

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Creating a Graph of an Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function

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Creating a Mosaic Plot

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Creating a Pie Chart

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Creating a Map

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Creating a Choropleth Map

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Making a Map with a Clean Background

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Creating a Map from a Shapefile

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14. Output for Presentation

Outputting to PDF Vector Files

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Outputting to SVG Vector Files

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Outputting to WMF Vector Files

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Editing a Vector Output File

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Outputting to Bitmap (PNG/TIFF) Files

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Using Fonts in PDF Files

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Using Fonts in Windows Bitmap or Screen Output

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15. Getting Your Data into Shape

Creating a Data Frame

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Getting Information About a Data Structure

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Adding a Column to a Data Frame

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Deleting a Column from a Data Frame

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Renaming Columns in a Data Frame

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Reordering Columns in a Data Frame

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Getting a Subset of a Data Frame

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Changing the Order of Factor Levels

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Changing the Order of Factor Levels Based on Data Values

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Changing the Names of Factor Levels

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Removing Unused Levels from a Factor

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Changing the Names of Items in a Character Vector

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Recoding a Categorical Variable to Another Categorical Variable

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Recoding a Continuous Variable to a Categorical Variable

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Transforming Variables

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Transforming Variables by Group

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Summarizing Data by Groups

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Dealing with NAs Missing combinations