1  Introduction

This book is intended to be a single source of GGPlot2 Wickham (2009) recipes for generating publication quality plots for HVTI CORR publications and presentations. The compendium is collected from figures we have included over the course of publications.

The book is divided into multiple parts collecting different bits of information. The Getting Started part gives a brief introduction to how we use R and which packages we use to create figures.

If you take one thing from this book, take the shape of the workflow: construct, plot, decorate, save. An hv_*() constructor does the analysis and hands you a bare ggplot. You add scales, labels, and a theme. You save it for wherever it is going. The figure’s content is decided once and its appearance as many times as you have audiences, and because every recipe makes its own data, you can always go back to a working example and adapt it.

Wickham, Hadley. 2009. Ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. Springer New York.