Defending the indefensible

1 · John MacKintosh · Nov. 2, 2020, midnight
I opened Twitter on Saturday night to see indignant tweets everwhere, most of which seemed to be directed towards a plot (or series of plots) that were shown as part of the UK Government Coronavirus briefing on Saturday evening. ‘Excel’ was actually trending, and you’re probably thinking, ‘Hold on, we’ve done this already’, and you’re right we have. But, what drew me in was seeing that the plot that was garnering the most ire was unquestionably a ggplot2 graphic. And that disturbed me. How can ...