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Essential graphics,
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This review is from: Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (Use R!) (Paperback)
The graphics in the base package of R are OK, but not great. Lattice adds a good deal more and serious users will find it essential. Lattice is known for implementing Cleveland's trellis graphics, where multivariate data is represented as a grid of smaller plots, but it does a lot more. If you want to put multiple density plots on the one chart, for example, where each curve represents one subgroup, you can do it in Lattice.
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Excellent book, excellent package...,
By Wayne Folta - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (Use R!) (Paperback)
Exactly the book you want if you're going to use lattice. And if you're serious about graphics in R you want to be using either lattice or ggplot2. I've been very pleased with the book and have tabbed quite a few pages for quick reference.
As a side note, lattice is like R's base graphics on steroids. After having this book for a while, I decided to investigate ggplot2, the other major R graphics package, and I think I'll stick with ggplot2. It has a totally different philosophy from lattice (and thus base graphics) which allows for an incredible flexibility without resorting to tinkering with the engine (i.e. lattice's panel functions). ggplot2 has a draft PDF manual online and a nice reference website. I ultimately chose ggplot2, but I still give this lattice book high marks and will keep it nearby for if I have to work with lattice. With its status as a recommended R package, lattice is more widespread and several packages now use it as their graphics foundation. 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Outstanding,
By Peter Flom - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (Use R!) (Paperback)
Deepayan Sarkar won a prize for programming Lattice. He deserves another for writing this book. The usual style of help files in R (including Lattice) is terse; this is a deliberate choice by the developers. Presumably, a lot of people like this terseness - but I am not one of them, and there are many others I know of who share my confusion at some of the help files.
Now, there's a whole book on Lattice, and it's written in an accessible style that will let me use Lattice much more creatively and with many fewer errors. I think even experts on Lattice may find new things here; but for newcomers to Lattice, it's an indispensable guide. 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Very helpful,
By Daniel T. Knoepfle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (Use R!) (Paperback)
I learned far more from a few hours of reading this book than I did from countless hours tinkering with Lattice graphs. I would recommend it without hesitation to any novice or intermediate user of R.
Furthermore, while both are helpful, this book is probably a better first purchase than R Graphics (Computer Science and Data Analysis). |
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