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R Graphics Course
The R Graphics course will enable attendees to take advantage of the full graphical capabilities of R. Ideally, trainees should have completed the R introduction course, or be familiar with using R, prior to enrolling for this course.
Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for people with a working knowledge of R, who want or need to extend their knowledge to take
advantage of the graphical capabilities of R.
Course Outine:
As with all our courses, attendees are provided with comprehensive training manuals complete with detailed examples and laminated tip sheets for future reference.
The cost of this course is £900 for commercial attendees and £500 for academic attendees.
Should you want to book a place on this course or have any questions please contact us at
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Should your organization have more than 3 possible attendees why not talk to us about hosting a customized and focused course delivered at your own premises?
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Refresh R basics
- Introduction to R
- History of R
- Online Resources
- R data objects (vectors, data frames, matrices, lists, ...)
- R packages (what are they, how to get them, ...)
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R functions
- how to use functions
- function documentation
- how to write a function (input, output)
- warnings, errors
- control flow, loops, scoping
- work with S3 or S4 methods ?
- review of useful functions (data manipulation, string manipulation, random, [tsle]?apply functions)
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Introduction to R Graphics
- Graphic systems
- Graphic devices, graphic files (pdf, png, bmp, ...)
- Colours: the R colour model, colour palettes, colour ramps
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Traditional R Graphics
- How to use the space (figure region, plot region, margin region)
- High Level graphic functions (create a graphic)
- Low level graphic functions (add information to a graphic)
- Customize a graphic: line type, line width, title, labels, ...
- Mathematical Annotations
- Legends
- Using images in traditional graphics ?
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Grid Graphics
- Viewports: create, push, pop, up, seek
- Use several units (native, inches, cm, npc, …)
- Graphical objects
- Layouts
- Clipping, Pattern filling
- Using images with grid graphics ?
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Lattice Graphics
- The formula interface
- Simple lattice graphics
- How to use the space in lattice
- Set the data to match with lattice
- Panel functions: add information to a lattice graphic
- Customize a lattice graphic
- Graphics are objects
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Mix graphic systems
- mix grid and lattice
- mix grid and traditional
- mix lattice and traditional
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Introduction to other graphic systems
- 3d interactive graphics: the rgl system
- Grammar of graphics: ggplot
- Dynamic graphics: rggobi, iplots
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