Ggplot2

ggplot2
Original author(s)Hadley Wickham, Winston Chang
Initial release10 June 2007; 17 years ago (2007-06-10)
Stable release
3.5.1[1] / 23 April 2024; 6 months ago (23 April 2024)
Repository
Written inR
LicenseMIT license
Websiteggplot2.tidyverse.org
ggplot2
ggplot2
Base graphics
Base graphics
ggplot2 and base graphics defaults for a simple scatterplot image

ggplot2 is an open-source data visualization package for the statistical programming language R. Created by Hadley Wickham in 2005, ggplot2 is an implementation of Leland Wilkinson's Grammar of Graphics—a general scheme for data visualization which breaks up graphs into semantic components such as scales and layers. ggplot2 can serve as a replacement for the base graphics in R and contains a number of defaults for web and print display of common scales. Since 2005, ggplot2 has grown in use to become one of the most popular R packages.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Release 3.5.1". 23 April 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  2. ^ Wickham, Hadley (July 2010). "ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis". Journal of Statistical Software. 35 (1).
  3. ^ Wilkinson, Leland (June 2011). "ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by WICKHAM, H". Biometrics. 67 (2): 678–679. doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01616.x.
  4. ^ "CRAN - Package ggplot2". 12 October 2023.