However, in most cases you start with ggplot(), supply a dataset and aesthetic mapping (with aes()). You then add on layers (like geom_point() or geom_histogram()), scales (like scale_colour_brewer()), …

plotly: turn your ggplot interactive Another awesome feature of ggplot2 is its link with the plotly library. If you know how to make a ggplot2 chart, you are 10 seconds away to rendering an interactive version. …

Geoms Use a geom function to represent data points, use the geom’s aesthetic properties to represent variables. Each function returns a layer. Graphical Primitives a <- ggplot(economics, aes(date, …

A system for 'declaratively' creating graphics, based on "The Grammar of Graphics". You provide the data, tell 'ggplot2' how to map variables to aesthetics, what graphical primitives to use, and it takes …

Nov 24, 2025 · A curated ggplot2 hub for R. Learn geoms, axes/scales, labels/annotations, themes, faceting, colors, and saving plots—each with working code and examples.

Feb 21, 2026 · ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = hp)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 5) + labs(title = "Histogram of Horsepower", x = "Horsepower", y = "Count")

Basic plot specification First argument to ggplot() is a data frame mpg is actually a tibble (tbl_df) Tibbles are part of tidyverse Tibbles inherit from data.frame Columns in data frame referred to simply by …

This is the most basic step. Unlike base graphics, ggplot doesn’t take vectors as arguments. Optionally you can add whatever aesthetics you want to apply to your ggplot (inside aes() argument) - such as …

ggplot() initializes a ggplot object. It can be used to declare the input data frame for a graphic and to specify the set of aesthetic mappings for the plot, intended to be common throughout all subsequent …

However, in most cases you start with ggplot(), supply a dataset and aesthetic mapping (with aes()). You then add on layers (like geom_point() or geom_histogram()), scales (like scale_colour_brewer()), …