Using ggplot2 for Hydrology

Leonardo Perathoner prepared this for helping my bachelor students:

"Since some student asked to me some information about ggplot, I write it here for everybody.

If you are interested to plots and a graphic quality superior to the standard R, you can utilize the R package ggplot2 !!

Here they are some resources that I want to I would advise to use in your learning process:

1) First a good manual

http://www.bioinformaticslaboratory.nl/twikidata/pub/Education/ComputinginR/ggplot2-book.pdf 

and then, these other sites about ggplot I often use:

2) the official site:

http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/ 

3) a quick cookbook with examples and code snippets

http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/ 

Leonardo "

PS: many other resources here:

http://abouthydrology.blogspot.it/2012/08/r-resources-for-hydrologists.html
http://abouthydrology.blogspot.it/2016/09/cool-r-tydyverse.html

GGPlot: a way to do good graphics and understand data

Making good graphics is very important to understand data and to appropriately promote research achievements. ggplot2 is a recent R package of which there are several good tutorial and introductions. But recently a youtube webinar was posted by the very same author of the package, Hadley Wickham. Spending a little time to listen to him is really worthwhile. Click on the picture to go on the page where the video, the slides, and other information are.

Hadley kindly provided the following resources in his slides:
ggplot2 mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/ggplot2
stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/ggplot2
Lattice to ggplot2 conversion: http://learnr.wordpress.com/s=lattice
Cookbook for common graphics: http://wiki.stdout.org/rcookbook/Graphs/
ggplot2 book: http://amzn.com/0387981403