Series: ggplot2-tips – Albert Rapp

Calendar Plots With ggplot2

Today I’m showing you ggplot techniques to create calendar plots in no time.

Aug 4, 2024

Today I’m showing you ggplot techniques that give you full control over your texts. This includes dynamic text colors (depending on the background) and customizations using the brand-new marquee package.

Jul 21, 2024

9 min

Quick dataViz techniques for nicer line charts with ggplot

Today I’m showing you a couple of quick ggplot techniques that you can apply to quickly make your line charts nicer

Jul 7, 2024

10 min

How to avoid empty line charts

Today we’re finding out what goes wrong then ggplot can plot the lines that we want to plot.

Jun 30, 2024

12 min

Why you shouldn’t use boxplots

In this blog post, I explain why it’s not a great idea to rely too heavily on box plots.

Jun 9, 2024

17 min

How to create interactive country maps with R.

In this blog post, I show you how to create interactive maps with ggplot.

May 19, 2024

10 min

Three Ways to Include Images in Your ggplots

In this blog post, I show you three ways to include image files into your ggplot2 plots

Apr 7, 2024

8 min

Creating upset charts with `ggplot2`

In this blog post, I show you how to create upset charts with ggplot2

Mar 24, 2024

11 min

How to create diverging bar plots

In this blog post, we are going to recreate a beautiful diverging bar plot from the PEW Research Center.

Feb 25, 2024

22 min

Dot plots as an alternative to bar charts

Bar charts are great for comparing categories. But dot plots put more emphasis on individual data points. In this blog post, I show you how to create such an alternative plot with ggplot2.

Feb 11, 2024

9 min

Correlation heat maps with `{ggplot2}`

I show you how to create a correlation heat map with {ggplot2}, how to avoid using the wrong colors and how to use some nice variations of standard heat maps.

Feb 4, 2024

21 min

Combining maps and patterns with `{ggplot2}`

In this video I show you how you can create a map of the US with patterns inside of state borders.

Jan 28, 2024

8 min

6 Common `ggplot2` Mistakes

Here’s a list of some beginner’s mistakes when it comes to ggplot (and how to avoid them)

Jan 14, 2024

8 min

5 Powerful `ggplot2` Extensions

ggplot2 is powerful on its own but there are some extensions that make ggplot2 even better. In this blog post, I show you some of the best extensions.

Jan 7, 2024

8 min

5 Example Charts with `ggplot2`

ggplot2 is an incredibly powerful tool to create great charts with R. But it can be hard to keep all the moving parts in mind in the beginning. So, it helps to have a few examples to get started. In this blog post I show you how to create the most common chart types with ggplot2.

Dec 17, 2023

17 min

The Ultimate Guide to Get Started With `ggplot2`

ggplot2 is an incredibly powerful tool to create great charts with R. But it has a bit of a learning curve. This tutorial shows you everything you need to know to get started with ggplot

Nov 22, 2023

41 min

Creating interactive visualizations with `{ggiraph}` (with or without Shiny)

It is really simple to turn a ggplot into an interactive visualization. In this blog post you’ll learn how to do that with {ggiraph}. Also we’ll explore ways to enhance the interactivity with Shiny.

Feb 23, 2023

23 min