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by frankc 4935 days ago
Base graphics is poweful but definitely full of crazy. However, ggplot2 is well designed as one integrated system and makes total sense. The model is a bit more complicated to understand than literally specifying what goes where as you do in most graphics apis, but the documentation is very good and there are lots of people who know it well and respond helpfully on mailing lists and stackoverflow.