PacktLib: R Graph Cookbook

R Graphs Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

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 graphs

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

Creating Scatter Plots

Introduction

Grouping data points within a scatter plot

Highlighting grouped data points by size and symbol type

Labelling data points

Correlation matrix using pairs plot

Adding error bars

Using jitter to distinguish closely packed data points

Adding linear model lines

Adding non-linear model curves

Adding non-parametric model curves with lowess

Making three-dimensional scatter plots

How to make Quantile-Quantile plots

Displaying data density on axes

Making scatter plots with smoothed density representation

Creating Line Graphs and Time Series Charts

Introduction

Adding customized legends for multiple line graphs

Using margin labels instead of legends for multiple line graphs

Adding horizontal and vertical grid lines

Adding marker lines at specific X and Y values

Creating sparklines

Plotting functions of a variable in a dataset

Formatting time series data for plotting

Plotting date and time 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

Creating Bar, Dot, and Pie Charts

Introduction

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

Labelling a pie chart with percentage values for each slice

Adding a legend to a pie chart

Creating Histograms

Introduction

Visualizing distributions as count frequencies or probability densities

Setting bin size and number of breaks

Adjusting histogram styles: bar colors, borders, and axes

Overlaying density line over a histogram

Multiple histograms along the diagonal of a pairs plot

Histograms in the margins of line and scatter plots

Creating Box and Whisker Plots

Introduction

Creating box plots with narrow boxes for a small number of variables

Grouping over a variable

Varying box widths by number of observations

Creating box plots with notches

Including or excluding outliers

Creating horizontal box plots

Changing box styling

Adjusting the extent of plot whiskers outside the box

Showing the number of observations

Splitting a variable at arbitrary values into subsets

Creating Heat Maps and Contour Plots

Introduction

Creating heat maps of single Z variable with scale

Creating correlation heat maps

Summarizing multivariate data in a heat map

Creating contour plots

Creating filled contour plots

Creating three-dimensional surface plots

Visualizing time series as calendar heat maps

Creating Maps

Introduction

Plotting global data by countries on a world map

Creating graphs with regional maps

Plotting data on Google maps

Creating and reading KML data

Working with ESRI shapefiles

Finalizing graphs for publications and presentations

Introduction

Exporting graphs in high resolution image formats: PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF

Exporting graphs in vector formats: SVG, PDF, PS

Adding mathematical and scientific notations (typesetting)

Adding text descriptions to graphs

Using graph templates

Choosing font families and styles under Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

Choosing fonts for PostScripts and PDFs