7.4.More about visualizations, aesthetics, and annotations

R is a tool well-suited for creating detailed visualizations. In this part of the course, you’ll learn how to use R to generate and troubleshoot visualizations. You’ll also explore the features of R and RStudio that will help you with the aesthetics of your visualizations and for annotating and saving them.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the aesthetics features available in R with reference to size, shape, color, and plots
• Explain some common problems associated with visualizations in R
• Use of ggplot() to generate basic visualizations
• Describe the options for generating visualizations in R
• Demonstrate an understanding of RStudio functionality for saving visualizations
• Create a plot in ggplot2
• Explain the purpose and basic logic of the ggplot2 package

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• Create data visualization in R
• Explore aesthetics in analysis
• Annotate and save visualizations
• Weekly challenge 4