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Customizing Your Plots

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In the previous chapter, you learned how to create the most popular types of plots. This chapter explains how you can customize their appearance. Good use of titles, labels, and legends is essential if you want your plots to be useful and informative to others, and carefully selected colors and styles will help to create a more polished look.

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Stowell, S. (2014). Customizing Your Plots. In: Using R for Statistics. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0139-8_9

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