Message-ID: <502FA798BC5D2542B4C8DD6227C5422453450C7758@USD-EXMB03.usd.local>
Date: 2015-11-26T15:23:00Z
From: Granaas, Michael
Subject: Choice of graphics package
In-Reply-To: <5D92B016-F665-4A9C-8384-6037DC90F3BB@calvin.edu>
I am working with first year grad students in psychology and have sloooooooowly been adding some R content to the course. I do not have a systematic plan and I haven't yet found the teaching related materials that will be a good match to my particular course structure.
I noticed Randall Pruim's comment:
"4) For teaching, the decision between base graphics, lattice, and ggplot2 (and soon ggvis) is an important one to think through. Depending on the goals of the course, I can imagine good arguments for using lattice or ggplot2. I don?t find base graphics compelling for teaching and never teach it to my students."
Which caused me to wonder....which package should I be focusing on?
For these students I am focused on fairly basic graphics such as boxplots, histograms, scatterplots. What are the pros/cons of the different packages that I should consider as I work to be more planful in my incorporation of R?
Michael
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