I'd recommend two places to get started: * https://r4ds.had.co.nz/data-visualisation.html for a quick intro to ggplot2 (and the rest of the book explains the general tidyverse philosophy)
* https://ggplot2-book.org for the full details of ggplot2. Hadley On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:37 AM C W <tmrs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear R list, > > I am an old-school R user. I use apply(), with(), and which() in base > package instead of filter(), select(), separate() in Tidyverse. The idea of > pipeline (i.e. %>%) my code was foreign to me for a while. It makes the > code shorter, but sometimes less readable? > > With ggplot2, I just don't understand how it is organized. Take this code: > > > ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=carat, y=price)) + geom_point(aes(color=cut)) + > geom_smooth() > > There are three plus signs. How do you know when to "add" and what to > "add"? I've seen more plus signs. > > To me, aes() stands for aesthetic, meaning looks. So, anything related to > looks like points and smooth should be in aes(). Apparently, it's not the > case. > > So, how does ggplot2 work? Could someone explain this for an old-school R > user? > > Thank you! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.