1. Fundamental Graphics in R
Prof. Ke-Sheng Cheng
Dept. of Bioenvironmental Systems Eng.
National Taiwan University

2. Histogram hist(x, freq=FALSE, breaks=…) breaks= freq=
a vector giving the breakpoints between histogram cells,
a single number giving the number of cells for the histogram.
freq=
If TRUE, the histogram graphic is a representation of frequencies, the counts component of the result,
if FALSE, probability densities, component density, are plotted (so that the histogram has a total area of one).
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4. Empirical CDF, ecdf
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5. The ecdf in R is a function.
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8. Sample quantiles Linear interpolation 12/9/2018
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9. Using the quantile function to calculate sample quantiles
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13. Not linear interpolation!
These three numbers define the box. Whiskers are defined differently.
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14. Lower and upper hinges
The lower hinge is the median of the lower half of the data, and the upper hinge the median of the upper half of the data.
When the number of data points, say n, is even, there are (n/2) data points in the lower and upper halves.
When n is odd, there are (n+1)/2 data points in the lower and upper halves. The median is considered as a data point in both the lower and upper halves.
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15. Box-and-whisker plot (or boxplot)
A box-and-whisker plot includes two major parts – the box and the whiskers.
A parameter range determines how far the plot whiskers extend out from the box. If range is positive, the whiskers extend to the most extreme data point which is no more than range times the interquartile range (IQR) from the box. A value of zero causes the whiskers to extend to the data extremes.
Outliers are marked by points which fall beyond the whiskers.
Hinges and the five-number summary
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17. In R, a boxplot is essentially a graphical representation determined by the 5NS.
Not “linear interpolation”
The summary function in R yields a list of six numbers:
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18. Box-and-whisker plot of X
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19. Seasonal variation of average monthly rainfalls in CDZ, Myanmar
Boxplots are based on average monthly rainfalls of 54 rainfall stations.
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20. Barplots Barplots are useful in summarizing categorical data.
A barplot can also be used to present the frequency of the values of a variable in certain levels.
Barplots can also be used to show time series data.
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23. The QQ plots
The quantile-quantile plots are a type of scatter plot used to compare distributions of two groups or to compare a sample with a reference distribution.
When the groups are of different sizes, R reduces the size of the larger group to the size of the smaller one by keeping the minimum and maximum values, and choosing equally spaced quantiles between.
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25. The boxplot in R boxplot(x,range=0) boxplot(x) [Default, range=1.5]
A box-and-whisker plot includes two major parts – the box and the whiskers.
The parameter range determines how far the plot whiskers extend out from the box. If range is positive, the whiskers extend to the most extreme data point which is no more than range times the interquartile range from the box. A value of zero causes the whiskers to extend to the data extremes.
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28. Comparison of multiple boxplots
Can also use
boxplot(x1,x2,x3,names=c(“x1”, ”x2”, ”x3”))
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29. Comparison of multiple boxplots
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30. Low-level graphics In R graphics, the display is divided into:
The plot region where data will be drawn
Four margin areas, numbered clockwise from 1 to 4, starting at the bottom.
After establishing the plot region and margins, we can start adding points, lines, polygons, and symbols to the plot region.
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32. Graphic components points(x,y, …) lines(x,y, …) text(x,y, labels, …)
abline(a,b, …) # adds the line y=a+bx
abline(h=y, …)
abline(v=x, …)
polygon(x,y, …)
segments(x0,y0,x1,y1, …)
arrows(x0,y0,x1,y1, …)
symbols(x,y, …)
legend(x,y, legend, …)
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33. Multiple Scatter Plots
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35. Saving Graphs to Files
The R graphics display can consists of various graphics devices. The default device is the screen. However, it is also possible to save a graph to a file by assigning other graphics devices.
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36. Assigning R graphics device – a pdf file
Use > jpg(“filename.jpg”), if you want to save a graph to a jpeg file.
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37. Random number generation in R
R commands for stochastic simulation (for normal distribution
pnorm – cumulative probability
qnorm – quantile function
rnorm – generating a random sample of a specific sample size
dnorm – probability density function
For other distributions, simply change the distribution names.
For examples, (punif, qunif, runif, and dunif) for uniform distribution and (ppois, qpois, rpois, and dpois) for Poisson distribution.
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38. Approximation of the Poisson distribution by normal distribution Demonstration using stochastic simulation
Using R .
Estimated by normal approximation of Poisson distribution
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39. Poisson CDF by stochastic simulation
Estimated by stochastic simulation of Poisson distribution
Poisson CDF by stochastic simulation
Direct calculation using theoretical CDF of Poisson distribution.
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40. Approximation by normal distribution
Poisson CDF by stochastic simulation
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41. 3-D Graphics
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