Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (Use R!) |  | Author: Deepayan Sarkar
Publisher: Springer
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 265
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0387759697
EAN: 9780387759692
ASIN: 0387759697
Publication Date: January 2008
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Product Description
R is rapidly growing in popularity as the environment of choice for data analysis and graphics both in academia and industry. Lattice brings the proven design of Trellis graphics (originally developed for S by William S. Cleveland and colleagues at Bell Labs) to R, considerably expanding its capabilities in the process. Lattice is a powerful and elegant high level data visualization system that is sufficient for most everyday graphics needs, yet flexible enough to be easily extended to handle demands of cutting edge research. Written by the author of the lattice system, this book describes it in considerable depth, beginning with the essentials and systematically delving into specific low levels details as necessary. No prior experience with lattice is required to read the book, although basic familiarity with R is assumed. The book contains close to150 figures produced with lattice. Many of the examples emphasize principles of good graphical design; almost all use real data sets that are publicly available in various R packages. All code and figures in the book are also available online, along with supplementary material covering more advanced topics.
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Excellent book, excellent package... December 8, 2008
Wayne Folta (Washington, DC)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Exactly the book you want if you're going to use lattice. And if you're serious about graphics in R you want to be using either lattice or ggplot2. I've been very pleased with the book and have tabbed quite a few pages for quick reference.
As a side note, lattice is like R's base graphics on steroids. After having this book for a while, I decided to investigate ggplot2, the other major R graphics package, and I think I'll stick with ggplot2. It has a totally different philosophy from lattice (and thus base graphics) which allows for an incredible flexibility without resorting to tinkering with the engine (i.e. lattice's panel functions). ggplot2 has a draft PDF manual online and a nice reference website.
I ultimately chose ggplot2, but I still give this lattice book high marks and will keep it nearby for if I have to work with lattice. With its status as a recommended R package, lattice is more widespread and several packages now use it as their graphics foundation.
Superb book September 7, 2008
R. M. Pruzek (Albany, NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is hard to imagine a software book that beats this one. Sarkar has shown huge technical skill
in his development of the lattice package for R, and in this book he spells out how anyone with
the time and inclination can become proficient in using the package creatively. This book is
simply superb: well organized, comprehensive, and refined, with attention to the details of
coding that seem often to anticipate every question that the user is likely to have. If you care
about visualization and graphics, and use R, then you cannot go wrong in acquiring this book.
A must for users of lattice graphics July 2, 2008
F. Tusell Palomer (Espagne)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I share the views of the previous reviewers: this book is great. I have been using R for several years now, and found the help pages for Lattice much too terse to really grasp the potential of the system. This books is loaded with examples, ranging from easy to quite involved, and the explanations given are clear and to the point.
A book like this deserved a production effort from Springer, and about three times as many color plates as it has, but even as it is seems to me quite good.
Aside from the description of the Lattice package, that Deepayan Sarkar obviously knows as only its designer can, there is a wealth of comments on graphics design and pointers to the classics of the subject --Tufte, Cleveland, etc.
A book not to miss by any seriously interested in statistical graphics, or indeed by anyone willing to add a powerful tool to his/her graphics toolbox. May I only add that those willing to make a further investment of time to obtain the most of this book, might consider Murrell's "R Graphics" (Chapman & Hall), also a masterpiece of expository writing, discussing (in its chapter 4) Lattice graphics within the context of grid ---grid being the underlying graphics model on which Lattice is built.
Very helpful June 13, 2008
Daniel T. Knoepfle
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I learned far more from a few hours of reading this book than I did from countless hours tinkering with Lattice graphs. I would recommend it without hesitation to any novice or intermediate user of R.
Furthermore, while both are helpful, this book is probably a better first purchase than R Graphics (Computer Science and Data Analysis).
Outstanding April 2, 2008
Peter Flom (New York City)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Deepayan Sarkar won a prize for programming Lattice. He deserves another for writing this book. The usual style of help files in R (including Lattice) is terse; this is a deliberate choice by the developers. Presumably, a lot of people like this terseness - but I am not one of them, and there are many others I know of who share my confusion at some of the help files.
Now, there's a whole book on Lattice, and it's written in an accessible style that will let me use Lattice much more creatively and with many fewer errors.
I think even experts on Lattice may find new things here; but for newcomers to Lattice, it's an indispensable guide.
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