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Should we trust graphs' default settings in the R packages?
Agnieszka Wnuk, Konrad J. Dębski
Commun. Biometry Crop Sci. (2016) 11 (2), 114-126.
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, we cannot imagine conducting analysis and
creating any graph without support of various computer
programs. They make researchers’ work easier. No matter
how good their computer skills are, it is always nice to have some help,
and that is what default settings usually are for. It is believed that using
default settings of graphical software, one should not worry about choice of graph
settings. But is it actually true? Perhaps researchers are putting too much trust
in default settings? In this article, we will try to show that default settings are
not always as helpful as it seems. We will demonstrate this with examples of three
packages in R: graphics, lattice and ggplot2.
Key Words: default settings; graphs; R environment.
