plot_icecurves {hockeystick}

Download and plot essential climate data

Description

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

Usage

plot_icecurves(dataset = get_icecurves(), print = TRUE)

Arguments

dataset

Name of the tibble generated by get_icecurves, defaults to calling get_icecurves

print

(boolean) Display sea ice ggplot2 chart, defaults to TRUE. Use FALSE to not display chart.

Details

plot_icecurves invisibly returns a ggplot2 object with a pre-defined Sea Ice Index chart using data from get_icecurves. By default the chart is also displayed. Users may further modify the output ggplot2 chart. Chart consists of one line per year showing monthly sea ice from January through December. Current year is highlighted.

Value

Invisibly returns a ggplot2 object with Sea Ice Index chart

Author(s)

Hernando Cortina, [e-mail]

Examples

# Fetch historic monthly sea ice data since 1979:
icecurves <- get_icecurves()
#
# Plot output using package's built-in ggplot2 defaults
plot_icecurves(icecurves)

# Or just call plot_icecurves(), which defaults to get_icecurves() dataset
plot_icecurves()

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