R help - Aug 2008 - A comprehensive manual on "How to plot" (a lot of graphical examples welcome)

Hi,

I'm looking for a manual (we based or pdf) which would explain in detail
with graphical examples what all the option can do in plot and par. Does
anybody now anything like this? A couple of manuals to R I went through do
have plot parameters mentioned, but sometimes it is hard to understand or
imagine what the parameter can do (the same with the related help page)

e.g. I met "From Data to Graphics"
http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/03.html-- this explains types of the
graphs one can use, but does not contain
anything about placing a plot on a page, placing more plots next to each
other on a page, or spacing around the plot, and so on -- mainly things
related with the final plot one gets and would use as copy-paste product
without further changes (cropping, resizing).

Any hint appreciated.
Zroutik

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An introduction to R has some of these things.  The way that I am
learning is by doing- I need something and then I figure it out with
help from the list, manuals, and stubbornness.
best

Stephen Sefick

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Zroutik Zroutik <zroutik at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a manual (we based or pdf) which would explain in
detail
> with graphical examples what all the option can do in plot and par. Does
> anybody now anything like this? A couple of manuals to R I went through do
> have plot parameters mentioned, but sometimes it is hard to understand or
> imagine what the parameter can do (the same with the related help page)
>
> e.g. I met "From Data to Graphics"
> http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/03.html-- this explains types of the
> graphs one can use, but does not contain
> anything about placing a plot on a page, placing more plots next to each
> other on a page, or spacing around the plot, and so on -- mainly things
> related with the final plot one gets and would use as copy-paste product
> without further changes (cropping, resizing).
>
> Any hint appreciated.
> Zroutik
>
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>
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>


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so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

	-K. Mullis

On Aug 11, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Zroutik Zroutik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a manual (we based or pdf) which would explain in  
> detail
> with graphical examples what all the option can do in plot and par.  
> Does
> anybody now anything like this? A couple of manuals to R I went  
> through do
> have plot parameters mentioned, but sometimes it is hard to  
> understand or
> imagine what the parameter can do (the same with the related help  
> page)
>
>
Hello,

I highly recommend Paul Murrell's book "R Graphics".  More info is
here...

http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/rgraphics.html

Cheers,
Ben



Ben Tupper
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science
180 McKown Point Road
POB 475
West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575

I recommend the graphics in the Rattle GUI install with dependency all
=true and use the explore options..check log for any iterative learning...

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Zroutik Zroutik <zroutik@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a manual (we based or pdf) which would explain in
detail
> with graphical examples what all the option can do in plot and par. Does
> anybody now anything like this? A couple of manuals to R I went through do
> have plot parameters mentioned, but sometimes it is hard to understand or
> imagine what the parameter can do (the same with the related help page)
>
> e.g. I met "From Data to Graphics"
> http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/03.html-- this explains types of the
> graphs one can use, but does not contain
> anything about placing a plot on a page, placing more plots next to each
> other on a page, or spacing around the plot, and so on -- mainly things
> related with the final plot one gets and would use as copy-paste product
> without further changes (cropping, resizing).
>
> Any hint appreciated.
> Zroutik
>
>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> 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.
>
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In addition to the books mentioned, the 'tkexamp' function in the
'TeachingDemos' package lets you create a plot, then change the plotting
parameters using gui controls to see what effect that has on the plot.  The
examples on the help page show how to do this for some of the standard
parameters and you can easily add others that you want to see the effects of.

Hope this helps,

--
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
(801) 408-8111


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> of graphical examples welcome)
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a manual (we based or pdf) which would
> explain in detail with graphical examples what all the option
> can do in plot and par. Does anybody now anything like this?
> A couple of manuals to R I went through do have plot
> parameters mentioned, but sometimes it is hard to understand
> or imagine what the parameter can do (the same with the
> related help page)
>
> e.g. I met "From Data to Graphics"
> http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/03.html-- this explains
> types of the graphs one can use, but does not contain
> anything about placing a plot on a page, placing more plots
> next to each other on a page, or spacing around the plot, and
> so on -- mainly things related with the final plot one gets
> and would use as copy-paste product without further changes
> (cropping, resizing).
>
> Any hint appreciated.
> Zroutik
>
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> 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.
>