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This course is a comprehensive guide to the use of the built-in R plotting functionality to construct everything from customised simple plots to complex multi-layered figures. It follows on from the material in our introductory R course and participants are expected to have a basic understanding of R - enough to load and do basic manipulation of datasets.


Number of course hours : 5
Level: Medium
Topics Covered:

Course Content:

  • The R painters model
  • Core graph types and options
  • Plot area customisation
  • Using colour in plots
  • Adding plot overlays
  • Useful extension packages
  • Writing plots to files

Self enrolment (Student)