Creating Base Plots

R can plot data without installing any additional packages. This is commonly referred to as base plotting. Base plots are often not used outside of work done for data cleaning and EDA. Many data scientists use other more aesthetically pleasing plots, such as those generated using ggplot2 or Plotly, for any plots or graphs that a customer may see.

R - Base Plots

ggplot2

ggplot2 is an incredibly popular graphics package in R. It can be installed on its own or comes as part of the Tidyverse set of packages.

To to install ggplot2 use

R - ggplot2