Incorporate visualization fxns from plosOpenR

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Incorporate visualization fxns from plosOpenR

[sckott]

Hi @mfenner

Do you think you could help me get started with this by helping me get just one of your visualizations into this package? I looked at plosOpenR, but I am not sure how to proceed as the visualization functions use data that was saved previously.

[mfenner]

We could start with a simple example of a Venn Diagram showing the subset of articles mentioned in F1000 and Wikipedia, and how the two overlap. I have created a Gist for this at https://gist.github.com/mfenner/6662304.

[sckott]

Great, thanks for this.

[sckott]

@mfenner Try these examples:

https://github.com/ropensci/alm/blob/master/R/plot_density.R#L15-L24

I did use ggplot2 instead of base plots as it's easier to do faceting, e.g, passing multiple data sources into the function can give you a density plot for each data source.

[sckott]

associated commit 2014a4e

[mfenner]

The example Gist looks great. I would make #1447f2 the default color and I would add title and description as parameters for the function call so that they can be easily customized.

[sckott]

Okay, I will use #1447f2 instead, and and title and description as parameters.

[sckott]

Okay, @mfenner Density changed a bit, titles and axis labels use that blue color, and histograms are an option. .Title and description can be passed as arguments. A vector of colors can be passed in when plotting multiple data sources. The color parameter only affects the color of the density/histogram plots now, not the text on the plots (which is internal to the fxn)

[mfenner]

Looks great! And comes at a perfect time, as I wanted to look at density plots of citations by subject area, much easier with the ggplot2 facetting.

[sckott]

Great