Creating nice figures

R

• Use ggplot2
• Colour schemes: RColorBrewer or viridisLite
  • Paul Tol has also done a lot of work on colour-blind friendly schema, available in khroma
• Use patchwork to join ggplot objects together
• Use geomtextpath to create curved text in ggplot2
• Use tikzDevice to save a ggplot object as .tex file, then use \input{} in latex to read in the figure at the appropriate place
• RStudio: Tools -> Global Options -> Sweave -> LaTeX Editing and Compilation -> Use tinytex when compiling .tex files.
• Use geom_function() for plotting analytical distributions
• ggplot2 tricks: https://github.com/teunbrand/ggplot_tricks#readme
• direct labelling: directlabels package
• misc improvements to ggplot2: lemon cowplot

Python

• Use plotnine

LaTeX

• Colour directory

Aalto "Visual Design Guidelines"

• https://materialbank.aalto.fi/l/0207338b-a1c5-48af-8017-a1be012d05f6