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Manipulating data

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So far this book has assumed you have your data in a nicely structured data frame ready to feed to ggplot() or qplot(). If this is not the case, then you’ll need to do some transformation.

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Wickham, H. (2009). Manipulating data. In: ggplot2. Use R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98141-3_9

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