About this book

• Chapter 2: This chapter introduces several important ggplot2 concepts: geoms, aesthetic mappings and facetting.
• Chapter 3-9: explore how to use the basic toolbox to solve a wide range of visualisation problems that you’re likely to encounter in practice.
• Chapter 10-12: show you how to control the most important scales, allowing you to tweak the details of axes and legends.
• Chapter 13: demonstrates how to add additional layers to your plot, exercising full control over the geoms and stats used within them.
• Chapter 10-12: will show you what scales are available, how to adjust their parameters, and how to control the appearance of axes and legends.
• Section 13.7: Faceting is a very powerful graphical tool as it allows you to rapidly compare different subsets of your data.
• Chapter 17: you will learn about how to control the theming system of ggplot2 and how to save plots to disk.