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R Graphs Cookbook
Second Edition
Over 70 recipes for building and customizing
publication-quality visualizations of powerful
and stunning R graphs
Jaynal Abedin
Hrishi V. Mittal
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
R Graphs Cookbook
Second Edition
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First published: January 2011
Second edition: October 2014
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Credits
Authors
Jaynal Abedin
Hrishi V. Mittal
Proofreaders
Reviewers
Devangana
Vibhav Kamath
Kent Russell
Joshua F. Wiley
Commissioning Editor
Ashwin Nair
Acquisition Editor
Richard Brookes-Bland
Content Development Editor
Parita Khedekar
Technical Editor
Faisal Siddiqui
Copy Editors
Deepa Nambiar
Stuti Srivastava
Indexers
Mariammal Chettiyar
Monica Ajmera Mehta
Rekha Nair
Graphics
Disha Haria
Production Coordinators
Adonia Jones
Saiprasad Kadam
Alwin Roy
Cover Work
Alwin Roy
Simran Bhogal
Stephen Copestake
Ameesha Green
Project Coordinator
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About the Authors
Communicable Diseases (CCD) at icddr, b (
www.icddrb.org
). He attained his Bachelor's and
Master's degrees in Statistics from University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He has vast
experience in R programming and Stata and has efficient leadership qualities. He has written an
R package named
edeR: Email Data Extraction Using R,
which is available at CRAN (
http://
cran.r-project.org/web/packages/edeR/index.html
). He is currently leading a team
of statisticians. He has hands-on experience in developing training material and facilitating
training in R programming and Stata along with statistical aspects in public health research. He
has authored
Data Manipulation with R, Packt Publishing,
which got good reviews. His primary
area of interest in research includes causal inference and machine learning. He is currently
involved in several ongoing public health research projects and is a co-author of seven
peer-reviewed scientific papers. Moreover, he engages in several work-in-progress manuscripts.
He is also one of the reviewers of the following two journals:
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f
Jaynal Abedin
currently holds the position of Senior Statistician at the Centre for
Journal of Applied Statistics
(JAS)
Journal of Health Population and Nutrition
(JHPN)
introduced to the exciting world of data analysis with R when he was working as a senior
air quality scientist at King's College, London, where he used R extensively to analyze large
amounts of air pollution and traffic data for London's Mayor's Air Quality Strategy. He has
experience in various other programming languages but prefers R for data analysis and
visualization. He is also actively involved in various R mailing lists, forums, and the
development of some R packages.
Hrishi V. Mittal
has been working with R for a few years in different capacities. He was
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