It is fairly straightforward to set the margins of a graph in R by calling the par() function with the mar (for margin!) argument. For example, par(mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,2.1) sets the bottom, left, top and right margins respectively of the plot region in number of lines of text. Another way is by specifying the margins in inches
Nathan at Flowingata put up another interesting challenge today to improve the following graphic showing obesity trends in America. Here’s my attempt: I transposed the data so that the cohorts are on the X axis and each separate line represents an age group. So each line shows the percentage of obese people in a particular
Nathan Yau of Flowingdata put up a challenge earlier today to improve upon a graph showing government spending as a percentage of GDP, published in the Economist. The underlying data wasn’t available. So I put on my graph-to-numbers glasses on and pulled out some data. Here it is in case you want to have a
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
