plotScatter() function

[hol430]

Hi Matt, firstly thanks for developing this package, it's certainly saved us a lot of time/code!

I'm interested in producing a scatter plot of multiple layers, but I can't see a way to do it with the current plotScatter() function. My use case is plotting observations on the x-axis against predictions from multiple model versions on the y-axis. I have the model outputs and observations set up as layers in a single object, but the plotScatter() API seems quite different to the other plotting functions (such as plotTemporal()) in that it only accepts a single layer name for each axis. It also doesn't allow controlling the colour of the dots, the axis label text, plot title, doesn't use theme_bw(), etc.

This is of course all pretty minor and I can achieve what I want by (gg-)plotting things myself anyway, I just thought it might be nice to have these things hidden by the abstraction of the package (as they are for the other kinds of plots).

[MagicForrest]

Hi Drew,

First of all, I'm glad you like package and it is saving you time and effort :-)

And yeah, the current plotScatter() is more-or-less a just a placeholder, except I never got around to filling the place! I don't have any immediate plans to do it, too many other priorities at the moment. But I would like to do so in order to round out the plotting functionality of the package. So let's see...

[MagicForrest]

@hol430 There is now a function called plotXYComparison (because it works on Comparison objects and does not just scatter plots but also density plots) in branch dev-v1.2. Give it a test and some feedback here. If it ticks the boxes then I'll close out this issue. If not then we can see how it can be improved.