gures which are well beyond the cookie-cutter styles in more traditional point and click software. Because of this inherent flexibility when producing figures, data visualisation in R and supporting packages has grown substantially over the years.</p>
<p>In this Chapter, we will focus on creating figures using a specialised package called <code>ggplot2</code>.</p>
<p>Before we get going with making some plots of the <code>gg</code> variety, how about a quick history of one of the most commonly used packages