ggplot2 extended

Welcome

This is the website for my book ggplot2 extended. It is about extending the functionality of the ggplot2 R package by Hadley Wickham. There are many extension packages that have come out since the release of ggplot2. This book is about the best most useful out of them.

I will go through the basics of how ggplot2 works in Chapter 1. However, this book is primarily for you if you have some basic understanding of how ggplot2 works. I would suggest you first read Hadley’s book ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Wickham 2016). The work-in-progress 3rd edition is online.

R for Data Science (Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Grolemund 2023) also has three chapters that will get you started.

This book will then teach you how to get the most out of ggplot2 and the ecosystem around it.

This website is and will always be free, licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED license. There will be a physical copy of the book, eventually. Stay tuned!

Please note that ggplot2 extended uses a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this book, you agree to abide by its terms.

This book is written by Antti Rask.

Wickham, Hadley. 2016. Ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. 2nd ed. Springer.

Wickham, Hadley, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund. 2023. R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data. 2nd ed. O’Reilly.