Tidy Tuesday: Replicating Plots in R

Tidy Tuesday in week fifty of 2019 was all about this blog post by Rafael Irizarry on replicating plots in R.

I chose to focus on a heatmap showing infectious diseases in the United States before and after the introduction of vaccines.

My plot is heavily based on Rafael’s code with just a few extra annotations and a change of scale to match the original version published in the Wall Street Journal.

This was my first attempt at adding annotations outside the main plotting area. I learned how to create the annotations I wanted for this plot from the Tidy Tuesday work of Georgios Karamanis. Especially his week 36 entry for 2021.

My code is here: https://github.com/MHenderson/replicating-plots-in-r