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R Programming Fundamentals

You're reading from   R Programming Fundamentals Deal with data using various modeling techniques

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Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789612998
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Creating Base Plots

R can plot data without installing any additional packages. This is commonly referred to as base plotting. It is called base plotting because, like functions that come pre-installed with R in the base package, discussed in Chapter 1, Introduction to R, these plots are built into R. The graphics package comes with a download of R and enables you to plot data without installing any other packages.

To see details on the graphics package, you can search for R graphics package in a search engine of your choice or navigate to the following URL: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/graphics/html/00Index.html.

Base plots are often not used outside of work done for data cleaning and EDA. Many data scientists use other more aesthetically pleasing plots, such as those generated using ggplot2 or Plotly, for any plots or graphs that a customer may see. It is important...

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