Wednesday 16 March 2011

Textural triangle plot in R

Hi,
these days I'm working with soil textural data and one of the key point of these data is the presentation of the results.
The best way is a old-school texture triangle!!!

Because I like to do all my stuff in R, instead of opening draw software such as corel draw or adobe illustrator, I started looking at packages for this kind of plot.

I think the best one is plotrix, because it let's you plot the USDA or UK textura triangle, so in the end the image is ready for publication.

I prepared a little script to show how to create a simple plot, adding the legend and save it as image file.
The script is downloadable from this link:
R script

I'm also preparing a little video for showing how to use the script but if you are familiar with R, you don't need it.

4 comments:

  1. ciao,
    the link to the script seems to be broken!

    marco

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  2. Thanks man,
    you need to copy and paste the link into your browser to be able to download the file.
    Fabio

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  3. I don't know why it does that, because in the previous post the link was ok.
    I will try again, for now the copy and paste method works fine.

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  4. Ok, after 5 minutes of fighting it's now working fine.

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