R Graphics: (Chapman & Hall/CRC: The R Series)

Extensively updated to reflect the evolution of statistics and computing, the second edition of the bestselling R Graphics comes complete with new packages and new examples. Paul Murrell, widely known as the leading expert on R graphics, has developed an in-depth resource that helps both neophyte and seasoned users master the intricacies of R graphics. New in the Second Edition Updated information on the core graphics engine, the traditional graphics system, the grid graphics system, and the lattice package A new chapter on the ggplot2 package New chapters on applications and extensions of R Graphics, including geographic maps, dynamic and interactive graphics, and node-and-edge graphs Organized into five parts, R Graphics covers both "traditional" and newer, R-specific graphics systems. The book reviews the graphics facilities of the R language and describes R’s powerful grid graphics system. It then covers the graphics engine, which represents a common set of fundamental graphics facilities, and provides a series of brief overviews of the major areas of application for R graphics and the major extensions of R graphics.

Table of Contents:
An Introduction to R Graphics R graphics examples The organization of R graphics TRADITIONAL GRAPHICS Simple Usage of Traditional Graphics The traditional graphics model The plot() function Plots of a single variable Plots of two variables Plots of many variables Arguments to graphics functions Specialized plots Interactive graphics Customizing Traditional Graphics The traditional graphics model in more detail Controlling the appearance of plots Arranging multiple plots Annotating plots Creating new plots GRID GRAPHICS Trellis Graphics: the lattice Package The lattice graphics model Why another graphics system? lattice plot types The formula argument and multipanel conditioning The group argument and legends The layout argument and arranging plots The scales argument and labelling axes The panel argument and annotating plots The par.settings argument and graphical parameters Extending lattice plots The Grammar of Graphics: the ggplot2 Package Quick plots The ggplot2 graphics model Why another graphics system? Data Geoms and aesthetics Scales Statistical transformations The group aesthetic Position adjustments Coordinate transformations Facets Themes Annotating Extending ggplot2 The grid Graphics Model A brief overview of grid graphics A simple example Graphical primitives Coordinate systems Controlling the appearance of output Viewports Missing values and non-finite values Interactive graphics Customizing lattice plots Customizing ggplot2 output The grid Graphics Object Model Working with graphical output Grob lists, trees, and paths Working with graphical objects off-screen 7.Capturing output Placing and packing grobs in frames Other details about grobs Saving and loading grid graphics Working with lattice grobs Working with ggplot2 grobs Developing New Graphics Functions and Objects An example Modularity Simple graphics functions Graphical objects Debugging grid THE GRAPHICS ENGINE Graphics Formats Graphics devices Graphical output formats Including R graphics in other documents Device-specific features Multiple pages of output Display lists Extension packages Graphical Parameters Colors Line styles Data symbols Fonts Mathematical formulae GRAPHICS PACKAGES Graphics Extensions Tricks with text Drawing formatted text on a plot Avoiding text overlaps Peculiar primitives Confidence bars Calculations on colors Custom coordinates Atypical axes Plot Extensions Venn diagrams Chernoff faces Ternary plots Soil texture diagrams Polar plots Hexagonal binning Graphics for Categorical Data The vcd package XMM-Newton Plots of Categorical Data Categorical data on the y-axis Visualizing contingency tables Categorical plot matrices Multipanel categorical plots Customizing categorical plots The vcdExtra package Maps Map data Map annotation Complex polygons Map projections Raster maps Other packages Node-and-edge Graphs Creating graphs Graph layout and rendering Other packages Diagrams 3-D Graphics 3-D graphics concepts The Canterbury earthquake Traditional graphics Lattice graphics The scatterplot3d package The rgl package The vrmlgen package Dynamic and Interactive Graphics Dynamic Graphics Interactive Graphics Graphics GUIs Interactive graphics for the web Importing Graphics The moon and the tides Importing raster graphics Importing vector graphics Combining Graphics Systems The gridBase package

About the Author :
Paul Murrell attended Auckland University for his BSc (in Computer Science), BA (in Psychology), MSc (in Psychology), and PhD (in Statistics!). He then spent a year at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Community Medicine as a medical statistician and research assistant, before joining the Department of Statistics at Auckland University in October, 1999. His research interests include computational and graphical statistics. He is currently part of the development team for the R and Omegahat statistical computing projects. He was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010.

Review :
A lot has changed in the world of statistical graphics during this time, which is reflected in the substantial new material in the second edition. ! the changes make this book the essential and comprehensive guide to graphics in R. ! This is an excellent book. Everyone who uses R to draw graphics should have a copy! --Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 43, September 2011 Praise for the First Edition: !R Graphics is a must for many useRs and programmmeRs ! Paul Murrell, a member of the R Core Development Team, has not only been the main author of 'grid' but has also been responsible for several recent enhancements to the underlying R graphics engine. Together with its online companion website, this book will be an indispensable resource for almost everyone interested in how to produce R graphics efficiently and intelligently. --Martin Maechler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich !Starting with the basic plotting commands most users are familiar with from introductory texts, the book gives a comprehensive overview of the current state and design principles of visualizing data with R. Paul Murrell is one of the main authors of R's graphical facilities, and inventor of completely new features like the grid system or expressions for annotation of plots with mathematical formulae. ! beginners gradually are turned into programmers while learning the language, having ample material for both novices and experts. It will certainly claim its place on the bookshelf of reference guides next to my desktop. --Friedrich Leisch, Technical University of Vienna, Austria R Graphics is exactly the sort of documentation that R needs. It is written clearly, with many examples, and will be useful for any level of R expertise from novice upwards. It contains more than a hundred figures containing model code and its output. There are extensive cross-references that make finding detailed information easy. My copy of the book is from the first printing, but it is exceptionally free of typographical and other errors. ! Murrell is to be congratulated. --Duncan Murdoch, University of Western Ontario, Canada Thanks to Paul Murrell's new book, the secrets of both traditional graphics and the new, modern grid system get unveiled ! a must-have for novices and professionals alike, the ultimate guide to the power (and beauty) of R graphics. --David Meyer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, R News, 6(2), 2006 It achieves its goal of documenting the graphical facilities of R and should be extremely useful to anyone in need of detailed knowledge, in particular, of R's grid graphics. --Soren Feodor Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Journal of Applied Statistics, November 2007, Vol. 34, No. 9