Best books or other training materials for learning ggplot2?

[Mary]

Hi,

I'm looking for recommendations of books or other training materials to learn ggplot2; for a total of no more than $300. I'm new to R and graphics but am an experienced SAS and SQL programmer. Are there any training videos or courses? I am just completing the Coursera course on R so have just acquired a foundation, but need to be able to do presentation quality graphics for my work using ggplot2 and thus want to come up to speed fairly quickly.

-Mary

[Roman Luštrik]

Hot off the shelves, Winston's book on R graphics:

http://wiki.stdout.org/rcookbook/

A lot of material available in help files, github and ggplot2 website.

Cheers,

Roman

-Mary

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[Winston Chang]

Hi Roman -

Thanks for plugging the book! A small correction, though: the material in the book is actually different from the material on the website -- the book covers a lot more material than what I have on the website.

-Winston

[Mary]

Thanks to everyone for the great book ideas!

-Mary

--- Mary...@ARS.USDA.GOV wrote:

From: "Camp, Mary" <Mary...@ARS.USDA.GOV>
To: "'mlho...@avalon.net'" <mlho...@avalon.net>
Subject: RE: Best books or other training materials for learning ggplot2?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:24:03 +0000

Hi Mary,

Besides Winston Chang's great new book (I have 2 copies), here are 3 more books in my "using ggplot2 while on a desert island" library:

Michael Crawley, "The R Book, 2nd Edition" ($79.99 at Amazon.com, released Dec 26, 2012) has 2 great chapters on plots. While the plots in Chapter 5 aren't using ggplot2, they give good ideas for plots. Chapter 29 is about changing the look of plots which has a really good section on the ColorBrewer which ggplot2 can make use of. At 1076 pages & 4.8 pounds Crawley's new book is an extensive compendium of many R analysis and graphics. Plus, the 2nd Edition is in color so it's now much easier to read as the examples have the R code in red and the output in blue.

Robert Muenchen, "R for SAS and SPSS Users", ($74.95 at Amazon) is a good book for SAS users using R. Chapter 20 is Graphics Overview and Chapter 22 is Graphics with ggplot2. This chapter was written by Hadley Wickham the creator of ggplot2. I think it is a clearer explanation on the basics of using ggplot2 than what is in his own ggplot2 book.

Hadley Wickham, "ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!)", ($56.92 at Amazon) is the foundation book for using ggplot2 and should be in your ggplot2 library. I used this book to teach myself ggplot2, but think it's a better book for using ggplot2 after you know and have used ggplot2 awhile rather than for trying to learn ggplot2.

--Mary

Mary J. Camp, Biometrician
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Subject: Best books or other training materials for learning ggplot2?

Hi,

I'm looking for recommendations of books or other training materials to learn ggplot2; for a total of no more than $300. I'm new to R and graphics but am an experienced SAS and SQL programmer. Are there any training videos or courses? I am just completing the Coursera course on R so have just acquired a foundation, but need to be able to do presentation quality graphics for my work using ggplot2 and thus want to come up to speed fairly quickly.

-Mary

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