Vis 1

This graphic is a traditional stacked bar chart. This graphic works on the mpg dataset, which is built into the ggplot2 library. This means that you can access it simply by ggplot(mpg, ....). There is one modification above default in this graphic, I renamed the legend for more clarity.

mpg$class <- factor(mpg$class)

ggplot(mpg, aes(class,fill = trans)) +
  geom_bar(position = "stack") +
  labs(fill = "Transmission")

Vis 2

This boxplot is also built using the mpg dataset. Notice the changes in axis labels, and an altered theme_XXXX

mpg$hwy<-as.numeric(as.character(mpg$hwy))
str(mpg)
## Classes 'tbl_df', 'tbl' and 'data.frame':    234 obs. of  11 variables:
##  $ manufacturer: chr  "audi" "audi" "audi" "audi" ...
##  $ model       : chr  "a4" "a4" "a4" "a4" ...
##  $ displ       : num  1.8 1.8 2 2 2.8 2.8 3.1 1.8 1.8 2 ...
##  $ year        : int  1999 1999 2008 2008 1999 1999 2008 1999 1999 2008 ...
##  $ cyl         : int  4 4 4 4 6 6 6 4 4 4 ...
##  $ trans       : chr  "auto(l5)" "manual(m5)" "manual(m6)" "auto(av)" ...
##  $ drv         : chr  "f" "f" "f" "f" ...
##  $ cty         : int  18 21 20 21 16 18 18 18 16 20 ...
##  $ hwy         : num  29 29 31 30 26 26 27 26 25 28 ...
##  $ fl          : chr  "p" "p" "p" "p" ...
##  $ class       : Factor w/ 7 levels "2seater","compact",..: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
ggplot(mpg, aes(x = manufacturer, y = hwy)) +
  geom_boxplot() +
  labs(x="Vehicle Manufacturer", y="High Way Fuel Efficiency (miles/galon)") +
  coord_flip() +
  theme_classic()

Vis 3

This graphic is built with another dataset diamonds a dataset also built into the ggplot2 package. For this one I used an additional package called library(ggthemes) check it out to reproduce this view.

summary(diamonds)
##      carat               cut        color        clarity          depth      
##  Min.   :0.2000   Fair     : 1610   D: 6775   SI1    :13065   Min.   :43.00  
##  1st Qu.:0.4000   Good     : 4906   E: 9797   VS2    :12258   1st Qu.:61.00  
##  Median :0.7000   Very Good:12082   F: 9542   SI2    : 9194   Median :61.80  
##  Mean   :0.7979   Premium  :13791   G:11292   VS1    : 8171   Mean   :61.75  
##  3rd Qu.:1.0400   Ideal    :21551   H: 8304   VVS2   : 5066   3rd Qu.:62.50  
##  Max.   :5.0100                     I: 5422   VVS1   : 3655   Max.   :79.00  
##                                     J: 2808   (Other): 2531                  
##      table           price             x                y         
##  Min.   :43.00   Min.   :  326   Min.   : 0.000   Min.   : 0.000  
##  1st Qu.:56.00   1st Qu.:  950   1st Qu.: 4.710   1st Qu.: 4.720  
##  Median :57.00   Median : 2401   Median : 5.700   Median : 5.710  
##  Mean   :57.46   Mean   : 3933   Mean   : 5.731   Mean   : 5.735  
##  3rd Qu.:59.00   3rd Qu.: 5324   3rd Qu.: 6.540   3rd Qu.: 6.540  
##  Max.   :95.00   Max.   :18823   Max.   :10.740   Max.   :58.900  
##                                                                   
##        z         
##  Min.   : 0.000  
##  1st Qu.: 2.910  
##  Median : 3.530  
##  Mean   : 3.539  
##  3rd Qu.: 4.040  
##  Max.   :31.800  
## 
library(ggthemes)

ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=price, fill = cut, color=cut)) +
  geom_density(alpha = 0.2) +
  ggtitle("Diamond Price Density") +
  labs(x = "Daimond Price (USD", y = "Density") +
  theme_economist() + scale_colour_economist()

Vis 4

For this plot we are changing vis idioms to a scatter plot framework. Additionally, I am using ggplot2 package to fit a linear model to the data all within the plot framework. Three are edited labels and theme modifications as well.

summary(iris)
##   Sepal.Length    Sepal.Width     Petal.Length    Petal.Width   
##  Min.   :4.300   Min.   :2.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :0.100  
##  1st Qu.:5.100   1st Qu.:2.800   1st Qu.:1.600   1st Qu.:0.300  
##  Median :5.800   Median :3.000   Median :4.350   Median :1.300  
##  Mean   :5.843   Mean   :3.057   Mean   :3.758   Mean   :1.199  
##  3rd Qu.:6.400   3rd Qu.:3.300   3rd Qu.:5.100   3rd Qu.:1.800  
##  Max.   :7.900   Max.   :4.400   Max.   :6.900   Max.   :2.500  
##        Species  
##  setosa    :50  
##  versicolor:50  
##  virginica :50  
##                 
##                 
## 
ggplot(iris, aes(x=Sepal.Length, y = Petal.Length)) +
  geom_point() + 
  geom_smooth(method = lm) +
  labs(title = "Relationship between Petal and Sepal Length", x= "Iris Sepal Length", y = "Iris Petal Length") +
  theme_minimal()

Vis 5

Finally, in this vis I extend on the last example, by plotting the same data but using an additional channel to communicate species level differences. Again I fit a linear model to the data but this time one for each species, and add additional theme and labeling modicitations.

p <- ggplot(iris, aes(x=Sepal.Length, y = Petal.Length, colour = Species)) +
  geom_point() + 
  geom_smooth(se = FALSE, method = lm) +
  labs(title = "Relationship between Petal and Sepal Length", subtitle = "Species level comparison", x= "Iris Sepal Length", y = "Iris Petal Length") +
  theme_tufte()

p+theme(legend.position="bottom")