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Graphics is perhaps the most difficult topic to compare between Stata and R. Both packages contains at least two graphical approaches, each with dozens of options and each with entire books devoted to them. Therefore, we will focus on only two main approaches in R, and we will discuss many more examples in R than in Stata. This chapter focuses on a broad, high-level comparison. The next chapter focuses on R’s traditional graphics. The one after that focuses just on the grammar of graphics approaches used in both R and Stata.
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Muenchen, R.A., Hilbe, J.M. (2010). Graphics Overview. In: R for Stata Users. Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1318-0_14
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