Tidy Tools for Paleoenvironmental Archives

Provides a set of functions with a common framework for age-depth model management, stratigraphic visualization, and common statistical transformations. The focus of the package is stratigraphic visualization, for which 'ggplot2' components are provided to reproduce the scales, geometries, facets, and theme elements commonly used in publication-quality stratigraphic diagrams. Helpers are also provided to reproduce the exploratory statistical summaries that are frequently included on stratigraphic diagrams. See Dunnington et al. (2021) .

tidypaleo

Working with multi-proxy paleo-archive data can be difficult. There are multiple locations, multiple parameters, and a lot of discipline-specific norms for plot layout and notation. This package simplifies a few workflows to promote the use of R for reproducible documents in paleo-based studies.

Installation

You can install the released versio of tidypaleo from CRAN with:

install.packages("tidypaleo")

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("paleolimbot/tidypaleo")

Examples

Strat diagrams

This package exposes a number of functions useful when creating stratigraphic diagrams, including facet_abundanceh(), which combines several other functions to help create stratigraphic plots using ggplot2. The geom_col_segsh() geometry draws horizontal segments, which are commonly used to show species abundance data.

library(ggplot2)
library(tidypaleo)
theme_set(theme_paleo())

ggplot(keji_lakes_plottable, aes(x = rel_abund, y = depth)) +
  geom_col_segsh() +
  scale_y_reverse() +
  facet_abundanceh(vars(taxon), grouping = vars(location)) +
  labs(y = "Depth (cm)")