👨‍🏫 ggplot2 Teaching Material

Collection of teaching materials for the R package {ggplot2}.

• "An Introduction to {ggplot2}" — Stats Group of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (2019-08-28)

Helpful Ressources

• Free Online Books:

  • "ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis" by Hadley Wickham → ggplot2-book.org
  • "R for Data Science" by Hadley Wickham → r4ds.had.co.nz
  • "Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction" by Kieran Healy → socviz.co
  • "Fundamentals of Data Visualization" by Claus Wilke → serialmentor.com/dataviz

• Galleries:

  • ggplot2 Extension Gallery → ggplot2-exts.org/gallery
  • R Graph Gallery → r-graph-gallery.com
  • Color Palettes in R → github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/r-color-palettes
  • #TidyTuesday Collection → tidytuesday.rocks

• Get Help:

  • RStudio Community → community.rstudio.com
  • R4DS Learning Community → rfordatasci.com
  • #TidyTuesday Community → #TidyTuesday on Twitter
  • ggplot2 Cheatsheet → github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets

• Useful Packages (alphabetically):

  • {cowplot} — plot arrangements, themes & annotations → wilkelab.org/cowplot
  • {ggalt} — alternative coords, geoms, stats & scales → github.com/hrbrmstr/ggalt
  • {gganimate} — create animations → gganimate.com
  • {ggforce} — several interesting add-on features → ggforce.data-imaginist.com
  • {ggmaps} — access to Google & Stamen maps → github.com/dkahle/ggmap
  • {ggplotly} — create interactive plots → plot.ly/ggplot2
  • {ggpubr} — publication-ready plot in one line → github.com/kassambara/ggpubr
  • {ggraph} — networks, graphs & trees → github.com/thomasp85/ggraph
  • {ggrepel} — prevent overlapping text labels → github.com/slowkow/ggrepel
  • {ggridges} — geoms for joy plots → github.com/clauswilke/ggridges
  • {ggtext} — rich-text rendering → github.com/clauswilke/ggtext
  • {ggthemes} — additional themes, sclaes & geoms → github.com/jrnold/ggthemes
  • {hrbrthemes} — typography-centric themes → github.com/hrbrmstr/hrbrthemes
  • {lemon} — axis & legend add-ons → github.com/stefanedwards/lemon
  • {patchwork} — combine ggplots → github.com/thomasp85/patchwork
  • {rayshader} — hillshaded maps in 2D & 3D → github.com/tylermorganwall/rayshader
  • {showtext} — use custom fonts → github.com/yixuan/showtext