Tag: plotting
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A plot of co-authorships in my little corner of science
Here’s a mostly useless visualization of the collection of journal articles that sits in my reference database in Endnote. I deal mostly in marine biology, physiology, biomechanics, and climate change papers, with a few molecular/genetics papers thrown in here and there. The database has 3325 entries, 2 of which have ambiguous publication years and…
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Part 2: Make your R figures legible in Powerpoint/Keynote presentations
In the previous post, I outlined some tips for increasing the size of figure labels for figures that are meant to be displayed on a projector. The previous post used the base R plot() function, but the procedure when plotting with ggplot2 is different and usually quite a bit simpler than the stock R plotting…
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Generating polygon boundaries for plotting simple time series data with missing data
Every so often I want to plot some data with pretty upper and lower error bounds, such as temperature data through time, perhaps with the maximum and minimum temperature range or standard error bounds for averaged data. The polygon( ) function can make those sorts of pretty plots. However, I’ll often have chunks of missing…
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Modifying basic plots in R
Below is a walk-through of some of the basics of customizing plots in R. These are all based on the graphics package that comes in the base installation of R. Let’s start by making a basic plot in R. In the code snippets below, green text behind a # sign is considered comments by R,…