How it works...

R provides many built-in plot functions, which enable users to visualize data with different kinds of plots. This recipe demonstrates the use of pie charts that can present category distribution. A pie chart of an equal size shows that the number of each species is equal. A histogram plots the frequency of different sepal lengths. A box plot can convey a great deal of descriptive statistics, and shows that the petal width can be used to distinguish an iris species. Lastly, we introduced scatter plots, which plot variables on a single plot. In order to quickly generate a scatter plot containing all the pairs of iris dataset, one may use the pairs command.