This is not the place for tutorials (although I recognize that many responses and discussions do intersect tutoriality). If you do a web search on ggplot tutorials you will find many good ones. Or go to the RStudio website which links to resources, including Hadley Wickham's book, which is probably the most authoritative. Incidentally, ggplot is based on Leland WIlkinson's book "The Grammar of Graphics" that provided the blueprint for Wickham's software (his PhD project at Iowa State I believe).
Cheers, Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:37 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. > [[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.
