michaelklos / ggplot2Intro

Materials accompanying the presentation "Introduction to ggplot2"

Introduction to graphing with the ggplot2 package

Materials accompanying the presentation ("Introduction to ggplot2") at the Davis R-Users Group Meeting on March 13, 2015.

• To follow along with the slides, go to: http://www.voovarb.com/ggplot2Intro/slides.html#1
• To download with the slides in pdf form (sorry edges are a bit cut off), go to: http://www.voovarb.com/ggplot2Intro/slides.pdf
• For the ggplot2 demo code, see the demo.r file (requires sourcing the data folder to generate plots)
• Visual Schematic of ggplot() syntax: http://www.voovarb.com/ggplot2Intro/ggplot_structure.png

Additional Resources

Video tutorials

• The screencast of this presentation

  • Note: A small fire occurred between ~23:10 - 25:40. Feel free to skip, as no graphing took place within this interval :)
  • Special thanks to Brandon R for his online input about mapping aesthetics to discrete vs. continous variables during the screencast :)

• Variance Explained's video tutorials on ggplot2

Links Around the Web

• Software Carpentry Workshop at St. Joseph's
  • Presentation/slides from the Sunday pm section contains wonderful intro slides to ggplot2.
  • Full Repo here
• Stack Overflow ggplot2 FAQs
• Zev Ross's Tutorial on violin/jitter plots