Announcement: R Graphics Cookbook

[Winston Chang]

Hi everyone -

I'm pleased to announce the availability of my new book, R Graphics Cookbook, published by O'Reilly Media. Some members of this mailing list apparently already have their hands on it! The book has many recipes for creating statistical graphics. This seed material for the book was taken from the website I created, Cookbook for R (http://wiki.stdout.org/rcookbook/), but the book goes into more depth and covers a broader range of techniques. Most of the content revolves around ggplot2, although it makes use of other tools when they are more appropriate.

You can preview the book here:

  http://books.google.com/books?id=fxL4tu5bzAAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The R Graphics Cookbook is available in both print and electronic format. One advantage of the print edition is that it lends itself to browsing, so you can easily find ideas for data visualization. If you want the electronic version, I suggest purchasing directly from O'Reilly, because they will supply you DRM-free files in several different formats: PDF, ePub (works with Nook), and Mobi (works with Kindle).

If you purchase directly from O'Reilly, you can use the discount code AUTHD to get 40% off print and 50% off electronic books, and there's free shipping for orders over $29.95:

  http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023135.do

I've done a little investigating to figure out how to get the best deal if you want to get both the print and electronic version from O'Reilly. The AUTHD code only works for print and ebooks, but not their print+ebook combos. If you buy a print book alone, you can pay $5 to upgrade and get the ebook version for $5. My understanding is that these are the options, for those of you in the United States (I don't know if the discounts work in other countries):

- Buy the print & ebook combo for $43.99 (AUTHD won't work with this)

- Buy the print and ebook as separate items in your cart, plus use AUTHD, for a final price of $39.98

- Buy the print book with AUTHD for $23.99. After you order, you can get the ebook upgrade for $5, for a total of $28.99. (This is below the $29.95 threshold for free shipping, so you'll have to pay for shipping unless add more to your order.)

And, of course, you could order the book from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/R-Graphics-Cookbook-Winston-Chang/dp/1449316956

Happy graphing!

-Winston

[pradip...@samhsa.hhs.gov]

Hello,

I am glad that I have purchased the book (R Graphics Cookbook). I find this book extremely useful -- kind of problem solver, companion guide... Of course you also need Hadley's book - ggplot2.

Congratulations to Winston for writing this outstanding piece -- R Graphics Cookbook.

Pradip Muhuri

[Skylar Lyon]

Just picked up the book. Thanks so much for the discount code. Can't wait to download the PDF and get cookin'!

[Antonio Canepa]

Hi Winston,

I already have your book and is an excellent tool!!, thank you for make ploting easier!.

One question, the book that you offer now is a second edition, otherwise will be a second edition?

Finally I would like to ask what do you think about two issues that seems important for ploting which are axes breaks and handle specific axis setting in a facet_wrap (or facet_grip) plot using ggplot2. Can they be implemented?...I have already read a lot of comments and some even says that Mr. Wickmann do not like axis breaks, and for me seems OK, but not all plot are fro financial and in Science axis breaks are absolutely common (even suggested by the journal's editors), the same as the facet_wrap plots with different y_axis settings....any comment from you will be aknowledged.

Thank you and I hope you will be very famous with this excellent material,

All the Best,

Antonio 

[Dennis Murphy]

I'll be presumptuous enough to answer your questions, since Winston is
busy these days on development.

Short answer to your two questions: no and no.

ggplot2 was feature-frozen in early March, so no new features will be
added to the package, and at this point, neither of your two requests
(which have been asked for occasionally on this list) have been
implemented.

For axis breaks, you can use base graphics and the plotrix package
(?axis.break). You can also create multiple y-scales in base graphics.
Therefore, in R, the best way to implement your 'features' is to use
base graphics.

Hadley has stated his opinion on these subjects multiple times, both
here and on StackOverflow. Google to find the related posts and the
references therein.

Dennis

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[도스팔마스]

Hi Winston. 

I lived in Korea, South and already have your book.

The book transfer to Korean, so I can understand easily what you write.

Because English is not my first language.

Unfortunately there are few books for R in Korean but your book is very kindly. :)

Please write more book for R & transfer in Korean.

Dospalmas.

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