legendary

This package contains functions for new kinds of plots and legends.

You can install this package in R using these commands:

remotes::install_github('adamlilith/legendary', dependencies=TRUE)

NB: If for some reason these commands don't work, you can install the package(s) by downloading the latest zip/tar file from the zipTarFiles directory and installing the package(s) manually.

New plots

• annulus: Annulus (a circle with a hole)
• annulusSeg: Segmented annuli (segments of circles with holes)
• arc: Arcs (segments of circles)
• pancakes: Side-by-side bar charts (useful for displaying female/male age structure, for example)
• pies: Add a pie chart to a plot
• quadPlot: 4-color/corner plot for data with proportional degrees of four categories
• spoke: Nodes representing items arranged in a circle with lines drawn between them to represent connections (e.g., variables with high levels of correlation)

New legends

• legendBreaks: Legend with stacked, colored bars useful for displaying, for example, maps of continuous values that have been thresholded using multiple values
• legendGrad: Legend with a color gradient
• legendQuad: Legend for data with proportional degrees of four categories (cf. quadPlot)

Auxiliary

• colorFrom4Vector: Transforms a vector of four values to HSV color plus coordinates on a quadPlot
• emptyCorner: Find the corner of the plot that is the least occupied by plot elements
• getFig: Return coordinates for par(fig=xxxx) for use with layout function for placing subplots
• labelFig: Adds a figure title in the upper left corner of the plot region (as in manuscripts).