[R] customizing plot, Vegan CCA

Gavin Simpson
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:18:00 -0000

On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 01:43 -0700, millerjeremya wrote:
> I?m working on a canonical correspondence analysis using Vegan.
> I?m new to this. I would like to control the shapes and colors for each of
> my individual display points and can?t figure out the syntax.

This comes up so often it is /the/ FAQ (well one of them anyway). So
much so I wrote a post on my blog showing how to do this. It changes the
colour of the points but you can use the same ideas to change the
plotting characters (via argument `pch`).

http://ucfagls.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/customising-vegans-ordination-plots/

See if that helps you.

G

> Here is the script I am using. It comes from Numerical Ecology in R by
> Bocard et al.
> windows(title="CCA biplot - scaling 1", 9, 9)
> plot(spe.cca, scaling=1, display=c("lc", "cn"),
main="Biplot CCA spe ~ env -
> scaling 1")
>
> I think I should be able to add points() and text() lines to change the
> appearance of particular elements. I also will need to refer to one or more
> specific points (e.g., make rows 1-4 a red circle, 5-8 a yellow triangle,
> etc.; make V1 say ?tree cover?, V2 say ?altitude?, etc.; see attached file
> CCA.jpeg).
>
> Many thanks!
>
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4511704/CCA.jpeg
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