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I'm co-organizing an R workshop, which is going to happen this Thursday - Saturday. Sixty people have signed up for it. That's too many people, and somehow I have this feeling that many of them are going to know more than I do already. It seems like the alternative will involve getting peppered with even more questions from even more people, but who really knows.
What I do know is that I won't be able to teach everyone everything about R's graphics capabilities in two hours. Ha! They'll get a pretty thorough grounding with base graphics, because base graphics are pretty concrete. Lattice will introduce them to some head-scratching complexities. Unfortunately, I just don't know lattice as well, so I'll probably wind up glossing over a lot of stuff. Then, ggplot2. It took me a while to settle on good resources for introducing ggplot2. The most I can hope for is a basic introduction and overview that contains enough tantalizing details that people are inspired to go forth and learn more on their own.
As I wrote on another social media platform, I don't know which headache-inducing factor is worse: scrambling to finish putting together the plotting portion of the R workshop, or the pollen. (whatever pollen is giving me sinus headaches just started happening over the last 3-4 days, argdarnit).
Some day, ask me about layout(), viewport(), split.screen(), par(), image(), contour(), and image.plot(). Just....not today.
I'm starting to learn the ways of gridExtra and gtable, but boy would it be useful if someone would put together an overview of all the different methods for arranging plot objects and their subcomponents, and which ones are compatible or incompatible.
What I do know is that I won't be able to teach everyone everything about R's graphics capabilities in two hours. Ha! They'll get a pretty thorough grounding with base graphics, because base graphics are pretty concrete. Lattice will introduce them to some head-scratching complexities. Unfortunately, I just don't know lattice as well, so I'll probably wind up glossing over a lot of stuff. Then, ggplot2. It took me a while to settle on good resources for introducing ggplot2. The most I can hope for is a basic introduction and overview that contains enough tantalizing details that people are inspired to go forth and learn more on their own.
As I wrote on another social media platform, I don't know which headache-inducing factor is worse: scrambling to finish putting together the plotting portion of the R workshop, or the pollen. (whatever pollen is giving me sinus headaches just started happening over the last 3-4 days, argdarnit).
Some day, ask me about layout(), viewport(), split.screen(), par(), image(), contour(), and image.plot(). Just....not today.
I'm starting to learn the ways of gridExtra and gtable, but boy would it be useful if someone would put together an overview of all the different methods for arranging plot objects and their subcomponents, and which ones are compatible or incompatible.
