plot_seaice: Download and plot essential climate data

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Download and plot essential climate data

Description

Plots the Sea Ice Index data retrieved using get_seaice() with ggplot2. The output ggplot2 object may be further modified.

Usage

plot_seaice(dataset = get_seaice(), title = "Arctic Sea Ice", print = TRUE)

Arguments

dataset	Name of the tibble generated by get_seaice, defaults to calling get_seaice
title	chart title, defaults to Arctic Sea Ice
print	(boolean) Display sea ice ggplot2 chart, defaults to TRUE. Use FALSE to not display chart.

Details

plot_seaice invisibly returns a ggplot2 object with a pre-defined Sea Ice Index chart using data from get_seaice. By default the chart is also displayed. Users may further modify the output ggplot2 chart.

Value

Invisibly returns a ggplot2 object with Sea Ice Index chart

Author(s)

Hernando Cortina, [e-mail]

Examples

# Fetch sea ice data:
seaice <- get_seaice()
#
# Plot output using package's built-in ggplot2 defaults
plot_seaice(seaice)

# Or just call plot_seaice(), which defaults to get_seaice() dataset
plot_seaice()

p <- plot_seaice(seaice, print = FALSE)
# Modify plot such as: p + ggplot2::labs(title='Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice') 

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