Graphics in R
R has great features to make graphics and produce attractive figures. This workshop is intended for R users who want to take full advantage of the graphical possibilities of R and who want to improve their graphical skills in R using the traditional graphics system, plus the add-on package ggplot2.
Course contents
Day 1 - Traditional graphics
- High and low level plot functions
- Annotations
- Multipanel plots
- Loops
- Custom-made functions
- Lists
Day 2 - ggplot2
- Building a plot layer by layer
- Faceting
- Multiple plots on the same page
- Adding statistical summaries
Target audience / prerequisites
Participants should be able to read in and manipulate data in R. If you have no idea what the following commands mean, the course is too advanced for you.
mydata <- read.table (“c:/temp/rawdata.txt”,header=T, dec=”,”)
sub.males<-mydata[mydata$sex==”male,]
sub.females<-mydata[mydata$sex==”female”,]
mydata$pass<-as.factor(ifelse(mydata$examresult<10,0,1))
levels(mydata$pass)<-c(“fail”,”pass”)
table(mydata$pass)
Course is open for researchers from all fields. No prior knowledge on statistics is assumed. The course does not involve statistical data analyses.
Instructors
Roma Siugzdaite
Pricing
| PhD student or postrdoc from Flemish university | free |
| Other academic | 120 € |
| non-profit or social sector | 200 € |
| Private | 400 € |
Time and place
March 4, 2024 from 9.30- 16.30 room S.R.112
March 5, 2024 from 9.30 - 16.30 room
- 9.30-12.00 room S.D.015
- 12.30-16u30 room S.R.213.
Bring your own laptop.