Introduction to ggplot2

An evening workshop on ggplot2 (http://ggplot2.org/), the premier plotting system for R.

"ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and none of the bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends) as well as providing a powerful model of graphics that makes it easy to produce complex multi-layered graphics."

Please install ggplot2 (http://ggplot2.org/) and all dependencies beforehand since there is no wireless network connection at the venue. You can find the installation instructions on the ggplot2 (http://ggplot2.org/) web site. If you have trouble with the installation feel free to ask below.

Install ggplot2 and all dependencies:

(in R) install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies = TRUE)

Use of RStudio is encouraged but not required.

The instructor Jenny Bryan is putting materials into this GitHub repository:

https://github.com/jennybc/ggplot2-tutorial

Please download/clone that repository. If you are not a Git user, no worries! Go to the URL just above and download the repo as a ZIP archive. See attached figure. The repository will likely change between now and 6pm Thursday but the most essential files are already there.

Download at your latest convenience :)

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Instructor

The instructor, Jennifer Bryan (http://software-carpentry.org/pages/team.html), is an Associate Professor in the Statistics Department and the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She's a biostatistician specialized in genomics and takes a special interest and delight in data analysis and statistical computing.