Tag Archives: Graphs

Simple maps in Matlab

Posted on December 9, 2011 by braymond

A recent article looked at producing simple maps in R. Here’s one way of doing similar things using Matlab.

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Gentle R – Kernel Methods

Posted on October 30, 2011 by swotherspoon

Gentle R is a regular workshop run at the Australian Antarctic Division to assist those trying to develop skills in the statistical package R. In the next session Simon Wotherspoon will discuss kernel density estimation and kernel smoothing. It will be … Continue reading →

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Maps in R

Posted on October 16, 2011 by swotherspoon

Often you want to display some data in its geographic context.  You can produce a range of simple maps in R with the maps and mapdata packages.

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Yeroon!

Posted on October 15, 2011 by swotherspoon

Don’t ask us – we don’t know what it means either.  But at http://yeroon.net/ggplot2/ you’ll find a wonderful graphical interface to Hadley Wickham’s ggplot2 package.  With ggplot you can very easily produce some very sophisticated plots, but there is a lot to learn and … Continue reading →

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Lattice vs ggplot2

Posted on October 15, 2011 by swotherspoon

R has several systems for producing complex plots.  Two of the more sophisticated are lattice and ggplot2.  Lattice is documented in Deepayan Sarkar’s book Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R; ggplot2 is based on the the concepts presented in The Grammar … Continue reading →

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