One of the most appealing things about R is its ability to create data visualizations with just a couple of lines of code.

For example, it takes just one line of code — and a short one at that — to plot two variables in a scatterplot. Let’s use as an example the mtcars data set installed with R by default. To plot the engine displacement column disp on the x axis and mpg on y:

plot(mtcars$disp, mtcars$mpg)

You really can’t get much easier than that.

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