GLEON Fellowship Workshop January 1418 2013 Sunapee NH Richard Iestyn Woolway Plotting with R R provides several frameworks for composing figures The simplest is the base graphics Another plotting system of R is ggplot2 which ID: 619736
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Skill sharing: Combining base and ggplot2 graphics in R.
GLEON Fellowship Workshop
January 14-18, 2013
Sunapee, NH
Richard
Iestyn
WoolwaySlide2
Plotting with R
R provides several frameworks for composing figures.
The simplest is the base graphics.
Another plotting system of R is ggplot2, which allows users to create publishable figures with ease.Has a good book explaining the philosophy behind it:http://ggplot2.org/Slide3
I recently needed to create a multi panel figure composed of a line
plot, continuous wavelet transform, and
the autocorrelation of a
time series .This can easily be created in base graphics using either par() or layout().I then decided to use ggplot2 to improve the quality of the acf plot in the third panel of the figure.
Plotting with R – base graphicsSlide4
Plotting with R – ggplot2 graphics
We can improve the quality of the
acf
plot with ggplot2:However, as par() and layout() are only available with base graphics, we cannot mix base and ggplot graphics in a single figure window.The most appropriate solution is to use the gridBase package.
The script called ‘RIW_code.R’ shows how gridBase is used. Slide5
Integration of base and ggplot graphics
gridBase
provides similar functionality to par(
mfrow=c(x,y)).This is an useful technique when we wish to create multiple panel figures that combines plots based on base graphics (e.g. biplots), that have not been implemented in grid (i.e. ggplot), and the task of re-implementing in grid is extremely daunting.