Open Access Publishing

As those who know me IRL or follow me on twitter (@djhocking), I am advocate for open science. This includes data sharing, open source software, open access to code of analysis, and open source publishing. This is my first post on the subject. I actually started this post back on 02 April 2013 but then…

High Resolution Figures in R

As I was recently preparing a manuscript for PLOS ONE, I realized the default resolution of R and RStudio images are insufficient for publication. PLOS ONE requires 300 ppi images in TIFF or EPS (encapsulated postscript) format. In R plots are exported at 72 ppi by default. I love RStudio but was disappointed to find…