Plot prior

Source: R/plot_prior.R

plot_prior plots your prior on the global diet proportions (p.global) and the uninformative prior side-by-side. Your prior is in red, and the "uninformative"/generalist prior (alpha = 1) in dark grey.

plot_prior(
  alpha.prior = 1,
  source,
  plot_save_pdf = TRUE,
  plot_save_png = FALSE,
  filename = "prior_plot"
)

Arguments

alpha.prior

vector of alpha (dirichlet hyperparameters, none can be = 0)
source

output from load_source_data
plot_save_pdf

T/F, save the plot as a pdf?
plot_save_png

T/F, save the plot as a png?
filename

name of the file to save (e.g. "prior_plot")