Chapter 7 ggplot - the geoms

There are many different type of graphs you can make in ggplot. For a quick overview, see the ggplot2-cheatsheet:

Figure 7.1: The grammar of graphics

For more information, see Wickham’s book (Wickham 2016) and the official ggplot documentation. ggplot is very extensive, but the beauty of using R is that others are also contributing to its development. When a particular type of graph does not exist in ggplot, chances are that others already have made a package that you can use. For some examples of excellent extension, see https://www.ggplot2-exts.org.

References

Wickham, Hadley. 2016. Ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. 2nd ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. http://www.springer.com/br/book/9780387981413.