Graphical user interface for creating ternary plots

Source: R/shiny.R

TernaryApp() launches a 'Shiny' application for the construction of ternary plots. The 'app' allows data to be loaded and plotted, and provides code to reproduce the plot in R should more sophisticated plotting functions be desired.

TernaryApp()

Details

Load data

The 'Load data' input tab allows for the upload of datasets. Data can be read from csv files, .txt files created with write.table(), or (if the 'readxl' package is installed) Excel spreadsheets.

Data should be provided as three columns, corresponding to the three axes of the ternary plot. Colours or point styles may be specified in columns four to six to allow different categories of point to be plotted distinctly. Example datasets are installed at system.file("TernaryApp", package = "Ternary").

Axes are automatically labelled using column names, if present; these can be edited manually on this tab.

Plot display

Allows the orientation, colour and configuration of the plot and its axes to be adjusted,

Grids

Adjust the number, spacing and styling of major and minor grid lines.

Labels

Configure the colour, position and size of tip and axis labels.

Points

Choose whether to plot points, lines, connected points, or text. Set the style of points and lines.

Exporting plots

A plot can be saved to PDF or as a PNG bitmap at a specified size. Alternatively, R script that will generate the displayed plot can be viewed (using the 'R code' output tab) or downloaded to file.

References

If you use figures produced with this package in a publication, please cite

Smith, Martin R. (2017). Ternary: An R Package for Creating Ternary Plots. Zenodo, doi: doi:10.5281/zenodo.1068996 .

See also

Full detail of plotting with 'Ternary', including features not (yet) implemented in the application, is provided in the accompanying vignette.