A major requirement of a good data analysis is flexibility. If the data changes, or you discover something that makes you rethink your basic assumptions, you need to be able to easily change many plots at once. The main inhibitor of flexibility is duplication. If you have the same plotting statement repeated over and over again, you have to make the same change in many different places. Often just the thought of making all those changes is exhausting!
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Wickham, H. (2009). Reducing duplication. In: ggplot2. Use R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98141-3_10
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