Dice-Leraas Diagram

Plots a Dice-Leraas diagram.

Usage

plot_diceleraas(object, ...)

# S4 method for matrix
plot_diceleraas(object)

# S4 method for data.frame
plot_diceleraas(object)

Arguments

object

A \(m \times p\) numeric matrix or data.frame of count data (absolute frequencies giving the number of individuals for each class).

...

Currently not used.

Value

A ggplot2::ggplot object.

Details

In a Dice-Leraas diagram, the horizontal line represents the range of data (min-max) and the small vertical line indicates the mean. The black rectangle is twice the standard error on the mean, while the white rectangle is one standard deviation on either side of the mean.

References

Dice, L. R., & Leraas, H. J. (1936). A Graphic Method for Comparing Several Sets of Measurements. Contributions from the Laboratory of Vertebrate Genetics, 3: 1-3.

Hubbs, C. L., & C. Hubbs (1953). An Improved Graphical Analysis and Comparison of Series of Samples. Systematic Biology, 2(2): 49-56. doi:10.2307/sysbio/2.2.49 .

Simpson, G. G., Roe, A., & Lewontin, R. C. Quantitative Zoology. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960.

See also

Other plot methods: matrigraph(), plot_bertin(), plot_diversity, plot_ford(), plot_heatmap(), plot_rank(), plot_spot(), seriograph()

Author

N. Frerebeau

Examples

## Data from Desachy 2004
data("compiegne", package = "folio")

## Plot a Dice-Leraas diagram
plot_diceleraas(compiegne)