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Appending Graphs in Palyoplot Tutorial Now Available

Posted on by Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson

We’ve all been there… created a bunch of graphs that now we have to copy/paste together in image editing software. It just disrupts the workflow, you know? I like to make less work for myself. That’s not to say I don’t still need to tweak this in an image editor, but I can at least minimize how often I have to. Enter the ability to append (that means sticking together one after another) graphic into one diagram! The tutorial for how to do so is now available. Here’s a sneak peak of two stacked plots appended into one image (notice, y-axis appears only on the left and is not duplicated for each plot. I give you options like that… 😉 )

Two stacked diagrams appended into one final image

Palyoplot Stacked Diagram Tutorial is Up

Posted on by Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson

Sometimes you just want to stack a bunch of (related) data together for visualization. The tutorial for how to do so with Palyoplot is now up to show you how to do just that! Here’s a sneak peak of what you can create…

  • Fig. 3: Alternative custom color application to highlight percentage of Ash
  • Fig. 4: Custom color application on a stacked bar diagram using Palyoplot
  • Fig. 5: Custom color application on a stacked line diagram using Palyoplot

Basic Palyoplot Tutorial is Up

Posted on by Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson

Seems I’m being extra productive today. Created a basic tutorial on creating diagrams using Palyoplot’s built-in datasets. It should be enough to get you started with the functionality and exploring how the datasets are setup in R.

To give you a little bit of a sneak peak before heading over there…

  • Fig. 1: Basic Palyoplot graph using built-in pollen-based datasets. Extra grey line is 10x exaggeration
  • Fig. 4: Basic Palyoplot diagram with double y-axis, italicized genus names, group headings and visual zonation markers and identifiers
  • Fig. 5: Basic Palyoplot diagram showing data as bars
library(palyoplot)
axis2 = palyoplot_get2ndAxis(interval=2, top=-20, bottom=115, ages=pp_agemodel)
graph1 = palyoplot_plotTaxa(xdata=pp_xdata, ydata=pp_ydata, ylabel="cal yr BP", bottomLabel="Percentages", 
                            colors=pp_colors, y2=axis2, y2label="depth (cm)", fontstyles=pp_fontStyles,
                            taxaGroups=pp_taxaGroups, plotStyle="line"))