lindechun/r-plot

A simple plot library based on `bash`, `R` mainly `ggplot2` to make the plot easily and flexibly

r-plot

Introduction

A new and more powerful visualization tool based on s-plot, which based on bash, R mainly ggplot2 to make the plot easily and flexibly, Developed by Dechun Lin. This lists the basic information for using r-plot.

r-plot Installation Notes

Required dependencies

• A UNIX based operating system.

• R v3.4.1 or higher installed.

Installation

Download r-plot from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/lindechun/r-plot

And then, install required modules.

$ cd /your/path/to/r-plot/bin/
$ Rscript dependencies.R
$ R
> webshot::install_phantomjs()
> q()

• you will need to add /your/path/to/r-plot/bin/ to your PATH environment variable.

Currently supported plots

Please type r-plot in command line directly to have the latest list.

#### Lines
line

#### Bars
barplot
colorLegend

#### Dots
point
point3d
pca

#### Boxplot
boxplot

#### Histogram
histogram

#### Areaplot
areaplot

#### Density
density
density2d

#### Cluster
hcluster
pheatmap

#### Pie
pie

#### Venn
venn

#### Other
enrichmentPlot
png2eps

Basic test data set

See /your/path/to/r-plot/data/ for test data set.

Usage

r-plot [pie/point3d/histogram/areaplot/../..] [options]

See /your/path/to/r-plot/example/ for example of 15 plot classes.

Basic layouts and themes

• Width, Height, Resolution, type of output pictures

  Default, width and height is automatic set-up, one can give number to -w to change it, give number to -u to change height. Give number to -r to alter resolution instead of using 300 as default.

  8 picture formats are supported, eps/ps, tex (pictex), pdf, jpeg, tiff, bmp, svg and wmf, with pdf as default. Give any mentioned string to -E to change output format.

• Legend position

  Defult, the legend is posited at the right of pictures. One can give top to -P to put the legend above pictures. Other accepted strings to -p is bottom,left,right, or c(0.008,0.8). The two element numerical vactor indicats the reltaive position of legend in pictures. 0.008 means position relative y-axis and 0.8 means position relative to x-axis. Specially, c(1,1) put legends at top-right.

• Title, xlab, ylab of picture

  One can set title, xlab, ylab with -t, -x, -y.

• themes for output picture One can give theme_classic2, theme_classic3, theme_cin to -T to set theme.