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On 01/28/14, 12:12 , Bebber, Dan wrote: > I would like to make a plea for "publication-ready" figures from R. > The default figures produced by R (both traditional and lattice > graphics) need to be amended (by users) in many respects to be > acceptable by publishers. I imagine that most R users are > producing figures for publication, and it seems inefficient that so > many adjustments need to be made. Although publishers vary in > their requirements, there is a general request for minimal > whitespace, and labelling of figure parts with a, b, c etc. in the > top left corner that should be easy to achieve in R. As you say, publisher requirements are different, and Journal requirements as well. So I don't think it is a good idea to change the default values - correction: I think it would be a *very bad* idea! What you could do, is write a package which wraps plot functions in wrappers which set the wanted par values. But these would depend on range, how many data series in a plot, if I want color, and so on - so you might end with *numerous* new plot functions. I don't think it is necessary as the graphs can be easily adapted to the publishers need (as you say). Better idea: use the graph gallery http://rgraphgallery.blogspot.fr/ to add example graphs with the required settings for each Journal. Cheers, Rainer > > For traditional graphics the main issues relate to white space, > which could be reduced by e.g. par(mar =c(3,3,1,1), mgp = > c(2,0.5,0), las = 1, tcl = -0.25) as defaults Labelling parts > inside the plot region can be achieved by e.g. legend("topleft", > legend = "A", bty = "n", x.intersp = 0, y.intersp = 0). Labelling > parts outside the plot region can almost be achieved by e.g. > mtext("A", side = 3, adj = 0), although the label is too far to the > right, rather than being in the top left corner. > > For lattice graphics, whitespace can be reduced by adjusting > trellis parameters as has been discussed previously, e.g. > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-January/123556.html > > However, labelling panels in lattice with a,b,c etc. in the top > left corner seems extremely difficult and involved, as has been > discussed previously e.g. > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Adding-text-labels-to-lattice-plots-with-multiple-panels-td3436700.html > > > Although the lattice strips are very useful for identifying panels, > publishers (in my field, at least) never allow this kind of > labelling. > > Therefore my question is: Could the default plotting functions be > amended to make it easier for users to produce publication-ready > graphics? > > Dan Bebber > > Department of Biosciences University of Exeter > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the > posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and > provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS58bjAAoJENvXNx4PUvmCfNwIAI7q1fWaF89q39YE4Wih3OEL RBPQ9dZAe9bitFSITfjUMBZ4jYFkyx6NzZKqirjGH2DqxeQy+3OA9gecPoxQO71W mx9G25yV7q0JtWIHlBivI23y+qVUnEYu86mzLVcH5vc9Bbs8dfUOZ8q9H1N+BMSU lha1A0cVZdqrOlM6dp2xHVHiteNA68SYes4oODjasYEoT6ozEQtHMxi5CW9yb5wa vew50j+bw2LxXkHEJ9xvg/8OTwzIS3k2nc3DCpVFqqwK4UgVbtNFu2umI+25ivBJ spkHTUSwi2FHEq1MNfVfxA7uZHEtFdGR+sofBHqs9G77cdYtyCTpPd48LMRMh3g= =A6RH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
