Week 8: Visual Display of Data Part 2
This week we will continue our exploration of graph-making in R.
This week we will focus on the basics of making a plot publication-quality.
Lecture Topics
- What makes a plot publication-quality?
- Fixing axes, reordering factors, considering data-density
- Figure captions
- Exporting for publication
- Doing all of the above in both ggplot and base
Resources
The most important resource this week is the ggplot2 cheat sheet
The PACE system can be accessed at this link
Activities
Within the R project there is an analysis file with basic code for a couple of plots. In-class (not for marks) you will make one of these publication-quality.
Code and Data
Lecture slides
Slides available via speakerdeck