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Some of the best figure design ideas come from cartographers. If you've ever read a Tufte book you've seen lots of examples. Let's talk about using color effectively. Penn State geography professor Cindy Brewer's ColorBrewer tool for selecting color schemes for figures has been conveniently packaged into an R library ... [Read more...]

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See in my Picasa here and get corrplot package here. Thanks Bob O'Hara's advice:)I found people's tastes differ, so input parameter col (fill color) and bg (background color) was added in new edition. What is more, now you can order your variables usin... [Read more...]

Color Imagedata(mtcars)fit = lm(mpg ~ ., mtcars)cor = summary(fit, correlation = TRUE)$correlationcor2 = t(cor[11:1, ])colors = c("#A50F15", "#DE2D26", "#FB6A4A", "#FCAE91", "#FEE5D9","white", "#EFF3FF", "#BDD7E7", "#6BAED6", "#3182BD", "#08519C")image(1:11, 1:11, cor2, axes = FALSE, ann = F, col = colors)text(rep(1:11, 11), rep(1:11, each = 11), round(100 * cor2))Ellipseslibrary(... [Read more...]

There are many types of scatterplots in R, here are some examples based on the famous Iris data.pairs() and coplot() in package graphics.gpairs() in package YaleToolkit.scatterplot.matrix() or spm() in package car.splom() in package lattice. [Read more...]

Bogdan Taranta (website in Polish) is developing a set of functions for drawing administrative maps of Poland. I wrote similar functionality for myself already some time ago, but only for voivodships, i.e. top-level administrative units, and also in a rather low resolution. Bogdan’s contribution seems to contain all ... [Read more...]