R: Shape palette from Tremmel (1995) (discrete)

tremmel_shape_pal {ggthemes} | R Documentation

## Shape palette from Tremmel (1995) (discrete)

### Description

Based on experiments Tremmel (1995) suggests the following shape palettes:

### Usage

    tremmel_shape_pal(overlap = FALSE, n3alt = TRUE)

### Arguments

`overlap` | use an empty circle instead of a solid circle when `n == 2`.
`n3alt` | If `TRUE` then use a solid circle, plus sign and empty triangle, else use a solid circle, empty circle, and empty triangle.

### Details

If two symbols, then use a solid circle and plus sign.

If three symbols, then use a solid circle, empty circle, and an empty triangle. However, that set of symbols does not satisfy the requirement that each symbol should differ from the other symbols in the same feature dimension. A set of three symbols that satisfies this is a circle (curvature), plus sign (number of terminators), triangle (line orientation).

If more than three groups of data, then separate the groups into different plots.

### References

Tremmel, Lothar, (1995) "The Visual Separability of Plotting Symbols in Scatterplots" Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1390760

### See Also

Other shapes: `circlefill_shape_pal`, `cleveland_shape_pal`, `scale_shape_circlefill`, `scale_shape_cleveland`, `scale_shape_tremmel`

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