Graphics

This is a guest post by Prasad Patil that answers the question: how to put a shape in the margin of an R plot? The help page for R’s par() function is a somewhat impenetrable list of abbreviations that allow you to manipulate anything and everything in the plotting device.

Description The useR2013 conference is organizing a data analysis contest, check the rules here. They have a package called useR2013DAC with two data sets: one from La Liga and the other one from the Formula 1.

The other day I learnt about the existance of the colors() vector in R which specifies all the character-based colors like “light blue”, “black”, etc. So I made a simple plot to visualize them all.

During the last pre-happy hour seminar, Karl Broman talked about Why aren’t all of our graphs interactive? I didn’t know, but a few years ago Karl worked in the department and clearly promoted beer-drinking and is the heart of the department.

It’s been a while since I’ve been waiting for the release of a visualization package in Bioconductor. Back in 2008 I was really impressed by the power of GenomeGraphs and I have used it in multiple occasions.