Chapter 4. Advanced Plotting Techniques

In this chapter, we will explore a few of the more advanced features and plots that can be realized in ggplot2. We will build on the knowledge you already acquired on the grammar of graphics, and we will see how the different components discussed in the previous chapter can be combined in order to get a more sophisticated and complex plot to represent your data.

Adding statistics

In the previous chapter, you saw how plots are composed of different components and how the data, aesthetic mapping, and geometry are the three minimally required elements needed in order to make a plot. In reality, statistics are also needed in order to draw a plot, but it is not necessarily needed to be specified since, as we have ...

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