The author makes an interesting point that ggplot2 defaults often look polished enough to make a novice find them acceptable when they're really not. It's a be

The author makes an interesting point that ggplot2 defaults often look polished enough to make a novice find them acceptable when they're really not. It's a beautifully polished and well-documented R package, but often I feel like I've wrestled a bear to get a figure just right. The effort though seems worth it for the results and I don't feel that way about the base graphics.