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by jtcond13 3289 days ago
To those of you who hate R, consider investing 1/2 hour to learn the dplyr package. Dplyr is, in my view, Hadley Wickham's real masterpiece and is why I use R for most data analysis nowadays.

As for ggplot, the 'grammar of graphics' approach makes it intuitive to get started with but I often run into trouble with both the inheritance hierarchy and with getting graphics 'the last mile' to presentation-quality.

My favorite ggplot2 graphic? The London Cycle Hires Map:

http://spatial.ly/2012/02/great-maps-ggplot2/