Help:Drawing graphs

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Question

How to draw graphs in Opasnet?

Answer

R-tools

In R-tools, you have the functionalities of R available. We recommend that you use the package ggplot2 whenever possible. It is very powerful, and borrowing good ideas from others is easier if we all use the same approach. Of course, it is also possible to use plot' (a kind of basic graph) as well, but the limits come sooner. This is an example code that contains all kinds of examples with comments.

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rlnorm

Graph for cumulative probability distributions

Size of base font:

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Colours and ordering of bars

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Google charts

This is how you can make fancy Google motion or map charts. See documentation for R package googleVis and Google's help. Note that Google has copyright in its maps, but the license to use them is very flexible and in practice free [1].

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Export a graph to EPS or PDF file

This code only works on your own computer, because you cannot save files when running code in Opasnet. [2]

# Saving an .eps file
setEPS()
postscript("whatever.eps")
plot(rnorm(100), main="Hey Some Data")
dev.off()

# Saving a .pdf file
pdf("whatever.pdf")
plot(rnorm(100), main="Hey Some Data")
dev.off()

If you are using ggplot2 to generate a figure, then a

ggsave(file="name.eps", width = 7, height = 7) 

will also work. It will save the last ggplot with the width and height you give (in inches).

Maps and GIS-based data

There are several methods to produce maps. These are described on Opasnet map.

GoogleDocs

GoogleDocs is the method of choice for drawing causal diagrams.

  • Make a drawing.
  • Share it with everyone with open editing.
  • Download is in png or svg format.
  • Upload the file to Opasnet and copy a link to the original Google document to the image page.
  • Use like any image.

Sankey diagrams

There is no established approach to Sankey diagrams. A few packages provide with functionalities, but the usebility and user-friendliness has not been tested.

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