StatsPlots appearance

[rikhuijzer]

The StatsPlots.plot formatting contains mistakes when creating plots via Documenter and Franklin. For example,

• the Basic Example at TuringModels crops the x and y-axes. Also, the spacing between the horizontal axis label and the title is too small and
• the same occurs in the documentation of MCMCChains.jl:

For both automated builds, the default Plots backend is used in combination with the env variable

GKSwstype: nul

Without this, the appearance is usually worse and errors such as "GKS: can't connect to GKS socket application' errors" are thrown.

Visual improvements are also mentioned at https://github.com/TuringLang/MCMCChains.jl/issues/246, specifically, for many parameters. One example of how that looks is available at the varying intercepts Reedfrogs model:

@mkborregaard

[devmotion]

Is it better (or worse) if the output format is changed to png?

[rikhuijzer]

Good question. I'm away from my desk for a few days. I will come back to this issue afterwards and answer your question.

[rikhuijzer]

Is it better (or worse) if the output format is changed to png?

This is the TuringModels basic example as PNG:

and as SVG (screenshot):

So, I don't think that the output format makes much difference.

[rikhuijzer]

According to discourse, the second issue can be solved by using the Plotly backend