I am not sure apeescape’s ggplot2 area plot with intensity colouring is really the best way of presenting the information, but it had me intrigued enough to replicate it using base R graphics.
The key technique is to draw a gradient...
1337 search results for "ggplot"
A quantum leap (CoRe in CiRM [4])
![A quantum leap (CoRe in CiRM [4])](http://www.r-bloggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/scotlip-e1278943739332.jpg?w=360&h=346)
Today, as I was trying to install SpatialEpi to use the Scotland lip cancer data in the last chapter of Bayesian Core, I realised my version of R, R Version 2.6.1, was hopelessly out of date! As I am also using Hardy Heron, a somehow antiquated version of Ubuntu on my Mac, upgrading R took 
Charting the World Cup
Now that Spain has won the World Cup, it's interesting to go back and look at some metrics from the matches and see if we can tease out what characteristics made for a winning Cup team this time around. Fortunately, the Guardian's Data Blog has made a wealth of World Cup statistics available, with data on every player of...
World Cup 2010 Statistics Plotted with R
Opta agreed to let the UK Guardian Data Blog publish 2010 World Cup Team and Player statistics. The data is available in a Google Docs spreadsheet. There are two tabs on this spreadsheet - one is PLAYERS the other is TEAM st...
Area Plots with Intensity Coloring ~ el nino SST anomalies w/ ggplot2
I see many economy indicator graphs that show emphasis by shading in the curve under the area (while x-axis is time). The shade is stronger at higher values (example). I did this in R below (ggplot2). This was a little more difficult that I’d expected. The color gradients are good to color each individual points 
R and Oracle HR Part II – Plotting a single variable
If you have not done so already, make sure you have R and Oracle setup as described in the previous article. If so, you should be able to create a connection from R and list the tables that are available in the HR schema.library('RODBC')ch <-o...
ggplot2 GSOC progress
Progress on the ggplot2 user interface is coming along. Please check out this VLOG which will give a good idea of where I currently am in the process. http://neolab.stat.ucla.edu/cranstats/vlog2.mov As always comments and suggestions are welcome. If you would like to try it out yourself, you can install the development version of Deducer using install.packages("Deducer",,"http://www.rforge.net",type="source") 
New versions of plyr, ggplot2 released
Hadley Wickham has announced that new versions of his popular grammar-of-graphics charting package ggplot2 and his general-purpose data reshaping tool plyr for R are now available. plyr boasts several new features, most notably a new join function which should simplify what can sometimes be a difficult process in R: merging two data sets. A simplified SQL-like terminology should make...
New versions for ggplot2 (0.8.8) and plyr (1.0) were released today
As prolific as the CRAN website is of packages, there are several packages to R that succeeds in standing out for their wide spread use (and quality), Hadley Wickhams ggplot2 and plyr are two such packages. And today (through twitter) Hadley has updates the rest of us with the news: just released new versions of plyr and ggplot2. source...
Make R speak SQL with sqldf
The R community is unique as programming communities go. Many users of R come from academia and have a relatively extensive mathematical background. The R community has developed in relative isolation from some other areas of programming th...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
