Chapter 3. Beyond the Basics – Adjusting Key Parameters
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Setting colors of points, lines, and bars
- Setting plot background colors
- Setting colors for text elements – axis labels, titles, 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 labels and tick marks
- Formatting log axes
- Setting graph margins and dimensions
Introduction
In this chapter, you will learn about some of the simplest yet most important settings and parameters of graphs in R base graphics. Learning how to adjust colors, sizes, margins, and styles of various graph elements ...
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