Tag: data retrieval

• September 7, 2011

  Digitizing data from old figures with ImageJ

  Following on this earlier post concerning the retrieval of data from figures in published papers with R, here is a method for doing the same with ImageJ. This is a freely available program that should run on Windows/Mac/Linux, just like R. To extract data points from a figure, you’ll need the Figure_Calibration plugin developed by…
• June 23, 2011

  Digitizing data from old plots using ‘digitize’

  The June 2011 issue of The R Journal contains an article on the R package digitize (link to pdf) by Timothée Poisot. This might prove to be a handy tool if you occasionally find yourself needing to retrieve data points from figures in old articles for which you don’t have the raw data. There are…