The digitize Package: Extracting Numerical Data from Scatterplots

Timothée Poisot

doi:10.32614/RJ-2011-004

The digitize Package: Extracting Numerical Data from Scatterplots

I present the small R package digitize, designed to extract data from scatterplots with a simple method and suited to small datasets. I present an application of this method to the extraction of data from a graph whose source is not available.

CRAN packages used

digitize, ReadImages

CRAN Task Views implied by cited packages

MetaAnalysis

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Poisot, "The digitize Package: Extracting Numerical Data from Scatterplots", The R Journal, 2011

BibTeX citation

@article{RJ-2011-004,
  author = {Poisot, Timothée},
  title = {The digitize Package: Extracting Numerical Data from Scatterplots},
  journal = {The R Journal},
  year = {2011},
  note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2011-004},
  doi = {10.32614/RJ-2011-004},
  volume = {3},
  issue = {1},
  issn = {2073-4859},
  pages = {25-26}
}