Part II: Base Plots
Given the transformed data, we can display the variety of plots contained in the New York Times analysis (which uses post-processed variants suitable for publication).
plot_gunsales(gunsales)
This document provides the analysis from the New York Times on-line article “What Drives Gun Sales: Terrorism, Obama and Calls for Restrictions”. The R code underlying the analysis is provided in the GitHub repository gunsales which contains the R package
The first step consists in transforming the two raw data sets included in the package into the data.frame used for the subsequent plotting.
gunsales <- analysis()## [1] "Increase in monthly gun sales in Missouri = 8773.09"Given the transformed data, we can display the variety of plots contained in the New York Times analysis (which uses post-processed variants suitable for publication).
plot_gunsales(gunsales)
The second set of charts redisplays the same charts as before, but using the ggplot2 package.
ggplot_gunsales(gunsales)
