I’m curious as to the problems you’ve having creating graphics in R. Are you using the ggplot2 package?
My experience is that once you understand R’s “grammar of graphics”, each visual becomes the same basic “fill in the blanks” exercise.
Have you seen this epic cheat sheet?
https://rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ggplot2-cheatsheet-2.1.pdf
- Brian