index.Rmd

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title: "R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd edition"
author: "Winston Chang"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
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biblio-style: apalike
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description: > 
  This cookbook contains more than 150 recipes to help scientists, engineers, programmers, and data analysts generate high-quality graphs quickly—without having to comb through all the details of R’s graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.

url: 'https\://r-graphics.org'
github-repo: wch/rgcookbook
twitter-handle: winston_chang
cover-image: cover.jpg
---

# Welcome {-}

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491978600"><img src="cover.jpg" width="250" height="328" align="right" alt="Cover image" /></a>

Welcome to the **R Graphics Cookbook**, a practical guide that provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R’s graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.

Read online here for free, or buy a physical copy on [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491978600).