eeplot - eeplot: a convenience function to save ggplot figures

Description

This function takes a ggplot, and saves it in an .RData file in the outdir directory. It returns the same input p with an additional field,enchantr, with an html_caption that can be used in html reports, to provide a download link to the figure file.

Usage

eeplot(p, outdir = NULL, file = NULL, caption = NULL, ...)

Arguments

p
ggplot figure
outdir
directory where the output file will be saved.
file
filename. If null, p will be used.
caption
catption for the image. Will be updated to add the path to the output file.
…
Additional objects to be save in the same output file

Examples

library(ggplot2)
diamonds_plot <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) + geom_histogram() +
labs(title = "Title of the plot",
subtitle = "Subtitle of the plot",
caption = "This is the caption")
p <- eeplot(diamonds_plot, outdir=tempdir(), file="diamonds-plot")
p

stat_bin() using bins = 30. Pick better value with binwidth.3

p$enchantr$html_caption

[1] " <a href='ggplots/diamonds-plot.RData'>ggplot file: diamonds-plot.RData</a>"