This document provides an overview of R for data visualization and graphics. It discusses the main graphics systems in R - base graphics, lattice, and ggplot2. It provides examples of common graph types like histograms, scatterplots, boxplots, etc. using each system. It also covers specialized packages for tasks like visualizing missing data, correlations, categorical data, and model effects. Finally, it discusses interactive and web-based graphics in R using packages like iplots, rggobi, googleVis, and Shiny.