Compact letter displays (CLDs) are letters that show which treatment groups are not significantly different by some statistical test. It is often desirable to include CLDs on graphs. Here I show how to add them to a box plot created with ggplot2. Continue reading “Compact Letter Displays”
Category: graphics
Get ggplot plot panel limits
I have added a new function (get_plot_limits) to my package QsRutils. It extracts the minimum and maximum X and Y values for a ggplot panel. This is useful in formatting ggplots. For example, you may wish to expand the panel to avoid text running out of the panel, or nudge text relative to some point. For an example, see my post on adding compact letter displays to box plots created with ggplot2.
Rotatable 3D Plots
The R package vegan includes the function ordiplot for making ordination plots using R’s base graphics. Additionally vegan provides several functions for enhancing the plots with spiders, hulls, and ellipses. It is even possible to overlay an ordination plot with a cluster diagram. (See my package ggordiplots on GitHub for making the same kinds of plots with ggplot graphics.) Vegan’s functions for adding these layers begin with “ordi”: ordispider, ordihull, ordiellipse, ordicluster. Earlier this year I discovered the package vegan3d. It makes use of rgl graphics which means that the plots it generates can be scaled and rotated with the mouse. This is not just fun – it allows you to see how well separated treatment groups are in the ordination space.