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ggplot2 is great. I recently took this intro to ggplot2. A lot of the biologists in my lab go to my officemate for his R/ggplot2 plotting skills, to help crea
by acomjean 12y ago
ggplot2 is great. I recently took this intro to ggplot2. A lot of the biologists in my lab go to my officemate for his R/ggplot2 plotting skills, to help create graphs for papers.
R takes a little getting used to but making graphs programmatically is pretty awesome.
The class materials and downloads. The wrap-up section has additional links:
http://tutorials.iq.harvard.edu/R/Rgraphics/Rgraphics.html http://tutorials.iq.harvard.edu/R/Rgraphics/Rgraphics.html
- johnchristopher 12y agoI am going off-topic but I have a question for you. I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine who's into academics (2nd PhD). He's highly proficient in LaTeX/Perl/R and typeset his own papers (for publishing and for conferences) but he mentioned that researchers shouldn't do that because this is too much time consuming and it could be better done by someone trained for that: a secretary. But budget cuts ended up forcing researchers, who can hardly type with one finger (and aren't trained to use LaTex/R/etc.) , to type out their papers. Wouldn't it be better if researchers could just send a rough draft to a service that would typeset and make beautiful plots out of it ? Isn't your officemate (may I assume he is a researcher too ?) running the risk to spend too much time on formating papers (and God knows you can spend a lot of time in LaTeX and R docs) ?
- acomjean 12y agoMy office is lab IT/ bioinformatics staff not researchers. I think most people at this point type better than they write, also I think they compose while they write, making edits etc. Plus errors in transcriptions. I haven't seen anyone doing much formatting/ typesetting of the text, which you are right, could be done by anyone.
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