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Saving Plots

Source: vignettes/articles/saving_plots.Rmd
saving_plots.Rmd
library(ggEDA)
library(htmlwidgets) # install with `install.packages("htmlwidgets")`
library(ggplot2)

There are many ways to save ggEDA plots. Two convenient strategies are

  1. Save interactive plots as self-contained HTML files using the saveWidget() function from htmlwidgets.
  2. Save static plots as png/tiff/pdf/etc. using the ggsave() function from ggplot2

Saving interactive plots to HTML 


# Create an interactive plot
interactive_plot <- ggstack(
  baseballfans,
  col_id = "ID",
  col_sort = "Glasses",
  interactive = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  options = ggstack_options(legend_nrow = 2)
)

# Save as a self-encapsulated html widget
saveWidget(interactive_plot, file = "interactive_plot.html")

Saving static plots

Simply create a non-interactive version of your plot and use ggsave.


# Create an static plot
myplot <- ggstack(
  baseballfans,
  col_id = "ID",
  col_sort = "Glasses",
  interactive = FALSE, # Turn interactivity off
  verbose = FALSE,
  options = ggstack_options(legend_nrow = 2)
)

# Save as png/tiff/pdf etc.
ggsave(filename = "my_plot.png", plot = myplot, width = 7, height = 5, dpi = 300) 
ggsave(filename = "my_plot.tiff", plot = myplot, width = 7, height = 5, dpi = 300) 
ggsave(filename = "my_plot.pdf", plot = myplot, width = 7, height = 5)

For publication, you often want to set the dpi argument of ggsave to 300 for higher resolution images.