ggplot2 is an R package for producing statistical, or data, graphics, but it is unlike most other graphics packages because it has a deep underlying grammar. This grammar, based on the Grammar of Graphics (Wilkinson, 2005), is composed of a set of independent components that can be composed in many different ways. This makes ggplot2 very powerful, because you are not limited to a set of pre-specified graphics, but you can create new graphics that are precisely tailored for your problem.
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Wickham, H. (2009). Introduction. In: ggplot2. Use R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98141-3_1
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