The hardware and bandwidth for this mirror is donated by dogado GmbH, the Webhosting and Full Service-Cloud Provider. Check out our Wordpress Tutorial.
If you wish to report a bug, or if you are interested in having us mirror your free-software or open-source project, please feel free to contact us at mirror[@]dogado.de.

svgedit

svgedit allows creating figures with complex layout programmatically in R, by using an SVG file as a template.

Installation

You can install svgedit from CRAN with:

install.packages("svgedit")

Workflow

There are four main steps to use svgedit:

1. Create an SVG template file using the Inkscape graphics editor
2. Create your figure layout in the SVG file, including:
   • Rectangles for ggplot2 plots and images (they will be replaced by your plots and images)
   • Text elements containing the {} placeholder for dynamic text (a single text box can contain multiple {} placeholders)
   • Any “static” elements you like (text, images, shapes…)
3. Open Inkscape’s “Layers and Objects” (Ctrl + Shift + L), and click on your placeholder elements to set their labels
4. In R, use svgedit to replace the placeholders with your plots, images, and text

Example

See the package vignette by running vignette("multi-panel-figure", package = "svgedit") for an example use.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
Health stats visible at Monitor.