ggplot2 is my favorite R library to plot data
Alluvial diagrams
Requires the ggalluvial package, on top of ggplot2 (via Mathieu Perona).
Alluvial diagrams are like this (my own production):
You can also use networkD3 with the function sankeyNetwork() (via Antoine Belgodere): more here. An interactive example can be found here (via Pauline R.).
Animate graphs
Bar plots
Simple bar plot
Suppose you have those data in df:
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You want to plot how many n are in each year in a simple bar plot.
plot <- ggplot(df, aes(x = year, y = n)) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity")
plot
Do NOT forget to add stat = "identity" in geom_bar(). It tells ggplot2 to “count” n.
Percentage bar plot
plot <- ggplot(df, aes(x = var1, y = (..count..)/sum(..count..))) +
geom_bar()
plot
More sophisticated code, not tested yet:
ggplot(df, aes(x= var1, group=var_group)) +
geom_bar(aes(y = ..prop.., fill = factor(..x..)), stat="count") +
geom_text(aes( label = scales::percent(..prop..),
y= ..prop.. ), stat= "count", vjust = -.5) +
labs(y = "Percent", fill="var1") +
facet_grid(~var_group) +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent)
Requires the library scales.
(Same source)
Plot several series in one single bar plot
ggplot(df, aes(x=var1, y=(..count..), fill=var2)) +
geom_bar(stat="identity", position="dodge")
If the variable used with fill is kind of categorical (for instance it’s years), beware to be sure it’s a factor (as.factor(var2)). Otherwise it may be treated as a continuous variable, and displayed incorrectly.
(..count..) means that ggplot2 will display the count of var1 for each value of var2.
Draw lines
How to draw straight lines in a ggplot graph?
Vertical line
Add geom_vline(xintercept = 10) on the ggplot2 object to add a vertical line at x = 10.
Horizontal line
Similarly, to draw a horizontal line on a ggplot2 object, use geom_hline(yintercept = 10). Change yintercept to your desired y value.
