R tips

Vim plugin for R

Vim-R-plugin2, discussed on this Ubuntu forum

Extensive colour palettes in R

> install.packages('RColorBrewer')
> library(RColorBrewer)
> # get 9 colors spanning yellow-orange-red:
> mypal <- brewer.pal(9, 'YlOrRd')
> # interpolate between these points to get 91 additional colors:
> mypal_e <- colorRampPalette(mypal)(100)

With thanks to the R-Help mail-archive.

Change tick labels

Initially suppress axes with axes=F, and then add individually, e.g. axis(1, at = AT, labels = LABELS).

More complete example here.