comic phylogenetic tree with ggtree and comicR
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ggtree applies the concepts of grammar of graphic in phylogenetic tree presentation and make it easy to add multiple layers of text and even figures above a 
.
Here, I cartoonize a phylogenetic tree generated by ggtree with comicR, which is a funny package to generate comic (xkcd-like) graph in R. Have fun with ggtree and comicR.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | library(htmltools)
library(XML)
library(gridSVG)
library(comicR)
library(ggplot2)
library(ggtree)
p <- ggtree(rtree(30), layout="fan") +
geom_text(aes(label=label, angle=angle), size=5, color="purple", vjust=-0.3)
p
svg <- grid.export(name="")$svg
tagList(
tags$div(
id = "ggtree_comic",
tags$style("#ggtree_comic text {font-family:Chalkduster;}"),
HTML(saveXML(svg)),
comicR("#ggtree_comic", ff=5)
)
) %>% html_print |
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