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"Draw your figures in Excel" No no no no no no no! Do not draw your figures in Excel. Yes, they can be drawn quicly, but Excel figures suck, are a pain to custo
by Odenwaelder 7y ago
"Draw your figures in Excel" No no no no no no no! Do not draw your figures in Excel. Yes, they can be drawn quicly, but Excel figures suck, are a pain to customize and will introduce bad habits. Learn to draw figures in R using ggplot2.
- ska 7y agoLearn to draw figures in R using ggplot2. Or any other of the handful of good tools.
- Odenwaelder 7y agoR + ggplot2 was the road I took and taught my students. There are other good tools indeed.
- zwieback 7y agoPure opinion until you explain why Excel figures suck and which bad habits it introduces?
- busyant 7y agoNot the person to whom you were responding. I think Excel charts can be quite good. But my impression is that ggplot2 is much more flexible in what you can do with it. It's also more difficult to learn, but that's to be expected.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoOr use Microcal Origin instead if you are uncomfortable with programming.