03-beautiful_vizualisations.Rmd

# Beautiful Visualizations in R

One of the strengths of R is its ability to create beautiful visualisations, improving the ability of stakeholders to understand research outputs. We can produce plots, 3 dimensional images, animations, maps etc in order to give decision makers the best possible information to make informed decisions.

Base R provides some basic plotting functionality, we saw this in the introduction section. The ggplot2 package [https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot.html](https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot.html) extends this 

A cheatsheet is provided here ![ggplot cheatsheet](_bookdown_files/bookdown-demo_files/figures-beauviz/ggplot_cheatsheet.pdf)

Basic guide to ggplot for health data:
1) Line charts (Covid)
2) Scatter plots
3) Heatplots/Corrplots
4) Mapping



## DiagrammeR

A very simple way to create model structures in R.

[http://rich-iannone.github.io/DiagrammeR/graphviz_and_mermaid.html](http://rich-iannone.github.io/DiagrammeR/graphviz_and_mermaid.html)