Welcome!

This book (https://smin95.com/dataviz) guides the reader to be familiar with R, a programming language, for data visualization. It also introduces the R package smplot, which aims to make the process of data visualization simple. This book was created entirely using RMarkdown for reproducibility.

Major updates on smplot and smCSF

If you downloaded before May 25th, 2022, please re-download smplot. Some updates include：

sm_slope_list() has been fixed.

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github('smin95/smplot', force = TRUE)
devtools::install_github('smin95/smCSF', force = TRUE)

Please cite this paper when smplot is used

Seung Hyun Min, Jiawei Zhou. smplot: An R Package for Easy and Elegant Data Visualization (2021). Frontiers in Genetics, 12:802894.

For R and ggplot2 experts

Please read Chapter 4, which is a manual for smplot.

Issues and contact

If you spot any mistakes in this online book, please pull-request on Github or email me seung.min@mail.mcgill.ca. If you find issues with the ‘smplot’ package, please pull-request on Github.

License

smplot is under the MIT license. This tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Seung Hyun Min is the sole creator of smplot.

About the Author

I am Assistant Professor in Dept. Ophthalmology and Optometry at Wenzhou Medical University. On June 2021, I received my PhD at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Robert F. Hess. My research is focused on amblyopia, neural plasticity and binocular vision. More details, such as my publications, are on my website: https://www.smin95.com.

Data Analysis and Visualization in R Using smplot