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Line Plot

Source: R/AllGenerics.R, R/plot_rank.R
plot_rank.Rd

Plots a rank vs relative abundance diagram.

Usage

plot_rank(object, ...)

# S4 method for matrix
plot_rank(object, log = NULL, facet = FALSE)

# S4 method for data.frame
plot_rank(object, log = NULL, facet = FALSE)

Arguments

object

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

...

Further arguments to be passed to internal methods.

log

A character string which contains "x" if the x axis is to be logarithmic, "y" if the y axis is to be logarithmic and "xy" or "yx" if both axes are to be logarithmic (base 10).

facet

A logical scalar: should a matrix of panels defined by case/sample be drawn?

Value

A ggplot2::ggplot object.

References

Magurran, A. E. (1988). Ecological Diversity and its Measurement. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-7358-0 .

See also

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

Author

N. Frerebeau

Examples

## Data from Conkey 1980, Kintigh 1989
data("cantabria")

## Plot rank vs abundance
plot_rank(cantabria)

plot_rank(cantabria, facet = TRUE)