Abstract:
Overview It has been 6 years since the rst edition was published. A lot has changed in the world of statistical graphics during this time, which is re ected in the substantial new material in the second edition. Major changes include a chapter speci cally devoted to the ggplot2 package and a new large section describing the many available graphics packages and tools in R (R Development Core Team 2011). In our review of the rst book we described this book as an excellent technical introduction to drawing graphics with R { the changes make this book the essential and comprehensive guide to graphics in R.