Violin plots allow to visualize the distribution of a numeric variable for one or several groups. They are very well adapted for large dataset, as stated in data-to-viz.com.
Violin charts can be produced with ggplot2
thanks to the geom_violin()
function. The first chart of the sery below describes its basic utilization and explain how to build violin chart from different input format.
It is doable to plot a violin chart using base R and the Vioplot
library..
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