The plotting environments in R
R provides a complete series of options to realize graphics, which makes it quite advanced with regard to data visualization. Along the next few sections of this chapter, we will go through the most important R packages for data visualization by quickly discussing some high-level differences and analogies. If you already have some experience with other R packages for data visualization, in particular graphics or lattice, the following sections will provide you with some references and examples of how the code used in such packages appears in comparison with that used in ggplot2. Moreover, you will also have an idea of the typical layout of the plots created with a certain package, so you will be able to identify ...
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