Create plot with only x axis - r

I want to create a bubble plot without the y axis, meaning the x axis represents a range between certain values and the size of the bubbles corresponds to a "number" variable.
Since geom_point() requires a y variable, I created a new column with only zero values and assigned it to the y axis.
ggplot(df, aes(x=range, y=new, size = numberPoints)) +
geom_point(alpha=0.5, shape=19) +
scale_size(range = c(.1, 24)) +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = NULL)
However, it gave the following result (the y axis is too large):
I only wanted the bubbles above the x axis (without too much space), but I can't find a way to do it.

You can use coord_fixed to "reduce" your axis
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
data.frame(x = c(1,2,3,4), size = c(1,1,4,8)) %>%
ggplot(aes(x=x, y=1, size = size)) +
geom_point(alpha=0.5, shape=19) +
scale_size(range = c(.1, 24)) +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = NULL)+
coord_fixed(6)

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How to colour background on a scatterplot using ggplot but still show data points in R?

This is my first question here so hope this makes sense and thank you for your time in advance!
I am trying to generate a scatterplot with the data points being the log2 expression values of genes from 2 treatments from an RNA-Seq data set. With this code I have generated the plot below:
ggplot(control, aes(x=log2_iFGFR1_uninduced, y=log2_iFGFR4_uninduced)) +
geom_point(shape = 21, color = "black", fill = "gray70") +
ggtitle("Uninduced iFGFR1 vs Uninduced iFGFR4 ") +
xlab("Uninduced iFGFR1") +
ylab("Uninduced iFGFR4") +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(-15,15,by = 1)) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(-15,15,by = 1)) +
geom_abline(intercept = 1, slope = 1, color="blue", size = 1) +
geom_abline(intercept = 0, slope = 1, colour = "black", size = 1) +
geom_abline(intercept = -1, slope = 1, colour = "red", size = 1) +
theme_classic() +
theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust=0.5))
Current scatterplot:
However, I would like to change the background of the plot below the red line to a lighter red and above the blue line to a lighter blue, but still being able to see the data points in these regions. I have tried so far by using polygons in the code below.
pol1 <- data.frame(x = c(-14, 15, 15), y = c(-15, -15, 14))
pol2 <- data.frame(x = c(-15, -15, 14), y = c(-14, 15, 15))
ggplot(control, aes(x=log2_iFGFR1_uninduced, y=log2_iFGFR4_uninduced)) +
geom_point(shape = 21, color = "black", fill = "gray70") +
ggtitle("Uninduced iFGFR1 vs Uninduced iFGFR4 ") +
xlab("Uninduced iFGFR1") +
ylab("Uninduced iFGFR4") +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(-15,15,by = 1)) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(-15,15,by = 1)) +
geom_polygon(data = pol1, aes(x = x, y = y), color ="pink1") +
geom_polygon(data = pol2, aes(x = x, y = y), color ="powderblue") +
geom_abline(intercept = 1, slope = 1, color="blue", size = 1) +
geom_abline(intercept = 0, slope = 1, colour = "black", size = 1) +
geom_abline(intercept = -1, slope = 1, colour = "red", size = 1) +
theme_classic() +
theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust=0.5))
New scatterplot:
However, these polygons hide my data points in this area and I don't know how to keep the polygon color but see the data points as well. I have also tried adding "fill = NA" to the geom_polygon code but this makes the area white and only keeps a colored border. Also, these polygons shift my axis limits so how do I change the axes to begin at -15 and end at 15 rather than having that extra unwanted length?
Any help would be massively appreciated as I have struggled with this for a while now and asked friends and colleagues who were unable to help.
Thanks,
Liv
Your question has two parts, so I'll answer each in turn using a dummy dataset:
df <- data.frame(x=rnorm(20,5,1), y=rnorm(20,5,1))
Stop geom_polygon from hiding geom_point
Stefan had commented with the answer to this one. Here's an illustration. Order of operations matters in ggplot. The plot you create is a result of each geom (drawing operation) performed in sequence. In your case, you have geom_polygon after geom_point, so it means that it will plot on top of geom_point. To have the points plotted on top of the polygons, just have geom_point happen after geom_polygon. Here's an illustrative example:
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x,y)) + theme_bw()
p + geom_point() + xlim(0,10) + ylim(0,10)
Now if we add a geom_rect after, it hides the points:
p + geom_point() +
geom_rect(ymin=0, ymax=5, xmin=0, xmax=5, fill='lightblue') +
xlim(0,10) + ylim(0,10)
The way to prevent that is to just reverse the order of geom_point and geom_rect. It works this way for all geoms.
p + geom_rect(ymin=0, ymax=5, xmin=0, xmax=5, fill='lightblue') +
geom_point() +
xlim(0,10) + ylim(0,10)
Removing whitespace between the axis and limits of the axis
The second part of your question asks about how to remove the white space between the edges of your geom_polygon and the axes. Notice how I have been using xlim and ylim to set limits? It is a shortcut for scale_x_continuous(limits=...) and scale_y_continuous(limits=...); however, we can use the argument expand= within scale_... functions to set how far to "expand" the plot before reaching the axis. You can set the expand setting for upper and lower axis limits independently, which is why this argument expects a two-component number vector, similar to the limits= argument.
Here's how to remove that whitespace:
p + geom_rect(ymin=0, ymax=5, xmin=0, xmax=5, fill='lightblue') +
geom_point() +
scale_x_continuous(limits=c(0,10), expand=c(0,0)) +
scale_y_continuous(limits=c(0,10), expand=c(0,0))

How to avoid over lapping bubbles in bubble plot?

I want to separately plot data in a bubble plot like the image right (I make this in PowerPoint just to visualize).
At the moment I can only create a plot that looks like in the left where the bubble are overlapping. How can I do this in R?
b <- ggplot(df, aes(x = Year, y = Type))
b + geom_point(aes(color = Spp, size = value), alpha = 0.6) +
scale_color_manual(values = c("#0000FF", "#DAA520", "#228B22","#E7B888")) +
scale_size(range = c(0.5, 12))
You can have the use of position_dodge() argument in your geom_point. If you apply it directly on your code, it will position points in an horizontal manner, so the idea is to switch your x and y variables and use coord_flip to get it in the right way:
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df, aes(y = as.factor(Year), x = Type))+
geom_point(aes(color = Group, size = Value), alpha = 0.6, position = position_dodge(0.9)) +
scale_color_manual(values = c("#0000FF", "#DAA520", "#228B22","#E7B888")) +
scale_size(range = c(1, 15)) +
coord_flip()
Does it look what you are trying to achieve ?
EDIT: Adding text in the middle of each points
To add labeling into each point, you can use geom_text and set the same position_dodge2 argument than for geom_point.
NB: I use position_dodge2 instead of position_dodge and slightly change values of width because I found position_dodge2 more adapted to this case.
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df, aes(y = as.factor(Year), x = Type))+
geom_point(aes(color = Group, size = Value), alpha = 0.6,
position = position_dodge2(width = 1)) +
scale_color_manual(values = c("#0000FF", "#DAA520", "#228B22","#E7B888")) +
scale_size(range = c(3, 15)) +
coord_flip()+
geom_text(aes(label = Value, group = Group),
position = position_dodge2(width = 1))
Reproducible example
As you did not provide a reproducible example, I made one that is maybe not fully representative of your original dataset. If my answer is not working for you, you should consider providing a reproducible example (see here: How to make a great R reproducible example)
Group <- c(LETTERS[1:3],"A",LETTERS[1:2],LETTERS[1:3])
Year <- c(rep(1918,4),rep(2018,5))
Type <- c(rep("PP",3),"QQ","PP","PP","QQ","QQ","QQ")
Value <- sample(1:50,9)
df <- data.frame(Group, Year, Value, Type)
df$Type <- factor(df$Type, levels = c("PP","QQ"))

Count and axis labels on stat_bin2d with ggplot

I am trying to make a 2D histogram with the individual bins showing both the bin contents and a gradient. The data are integers ranging from 0 to 4 (only) in both axes.
I tried working with this answer but I end up with a few issues. First, a few bins end up getting no gradient at all. In the MWE below, the bottom left bins of 130 and 60 seems to be blank. Second, the bins are shifted to below 0 in both axes. For this axis issue, I found I could simply add a 0.5 to both x and y. In the end though, I also would like to have the axis labels to be centered within a bin and adding that 0.5 does not address that.
library(ggplot2)
# Construct the data to be plotted
x <- c(rep(0,190),rep(1,50),rep(2,10),rep(3,40))
y <- c(rep(0,130),rep(1,80),rep(2,30),rep(3,10),rep(4,40))
data <- data.frame(x,y)
# Taken from the example
ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = y)) +
geom_bin2d(binwidth=1) +
stat_bin2d(geom = "text", aes(label = ..count..), binwidth=1) +
scale_fill_gradient(low = "snow3", high = "red", trans = "log10") +
xlim(-1, 5) +
ylim(-1, 5) +
coord_equal()
Is there something obvious I am doing wrong in both the color gradients and axis labels? I am also not married to ggplot or stat_bin2d if there is a better way to do it with some other package/command. Thanks in advance!
stat_bin2d uses the cut function to create the bins. By default, cut creates bins that are open on the left and closed on the right. stat_bin2d also sets include.lowest=TRUE so that the lowest interval will be closed on the left also. I haven't looked through the code for stat_bin2d to try and figure out exactly what's going wrong, but it seems like it has to do with how the breaks in cut are being chosen. In any case, you can get the desired behavior by setting the bin breaks explicitly to start at -1. For example:
ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = y)) +
geom_bin2d(breaks=c(-1:4)) +
stat_bin2d(geom = "text", aes(label = ..count..), breaks=c(-1:4)) +
scale_fill_gradient(low = "snow3", high = "red", trans = "log10") +
xlim(-1, 5) +
ylim(-1, 5) +
coord_equal()
To center the tiles on the integer lattice points, set the breaks to half-integer values:
ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = y)) +
geom_bin2d(breaks=seq(-0.5,4.5,1)) +
stat_bin2d(geom = "text", aes(label = ..count..), breaks=seq(-0.5,4.5,1)) +
scale_fill_gradient(low = "snow3", high = "red", trans = "log10") +
scale_x_continuous(breaks=0:4, limits=c(-0.5,4.5)) +
scale_y_continuous(breaks=0:4, limits=c(-0.5,4.5)) +
coord_equal()
Or, to emphasize that the values are discrete, set the bins to be half a unit wide:
ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = y)) +
geom_bin2d(breaks=seq(-0.25,4.25,0.5)) +
stat_bin2d(geom = "text", aes(label = ..count..), breaks=seq(-0.25,4.25,0.5)) +
scale_fill_gradient(low = "snow3", high = "red", trans = "log10") +
scale_x_continuous(breaks=0:4, limits=c(-0.25,4.25)) +
scale_y_continuous(breaks=0:4, limits=c(-0.25,4.25)) +
coord_equal()

box plot in R with additional point

I have a dataframe of multiple columns (let's say n) with different range and a vector of length n. I want different x-axis for each variable to be shown below each box plot. I tried facet_grid and facet_wrap but it gives common x axis.
This is what I have tried:
d <- data.frame(matrix(rnorm(10000), ncol = 20))
point_var <- rnorm(20)
plot.data <- gather(d, variable, value)
plot.data$test_data <- rep(point_var, each = nrow(d))
ggplot(plot.data, aes(x=variable, y=value)) +
geom_boxplot() +
geom_point(aes(x=factor(variable), y = test_data), color = "red") +
coord_flip() +
xlab("Variables") +
theme(legend.position="none")
If you can live with having the text of the x axis above the plot, and having the order of the graphs a bit messed-up this could work:
library(grid)
p = ggplot(plot.data, aes(x = 0, y=value)) +
geom_boxplot() +
geom_point(aes(x = 0, y = test_data), color = "red") +
facet_wrap(~variable, scales = "free_y", switch = "y") +
xlab("Variables") +
theme(legend.position="none") + theme_bw() + theme(axis.text.x=element_blank())
print(p, vp=viewport(angle=270, width = unit(.75, "npc"), height = unit(.75, "npc")))
I'm actually just creating the graph without flipping coords, so that scales = 'free_y' works, swithcing the position of the strip labels, and then rotating the graph.
If you don't like the text above graph (which is understandable), I would consider creating a list of single plots and then putting them together with grid.arrange.
HTH,
Lorenzo

How to jitter both geom_line and geom_point by the same magnitude?

I have a ggplot2 linegraph with two lines featuring significant overlap. I'm trying to use position_jitterdodge() so that they are more visible, but I can't get the lines and points to both jitter in the same way. I'm trying to jitter the points and line horizontally only (as I don't want to suggest any change on the y-axis). Here is an MWE:
## Create data frames
dimension <- factor(c("A", "B", "C", "D"))
df <- data.frame("dimension" = rep(dimension, 2),
"value" = c(20, 21, 34, 32,
20, 21, 36, 29),
"Time" = c(rep("First", 4), rep("Second", 4)))
## Plot it
ggplot(data = df, aes(x = dimension, y = value,
shape = Time, linetype = Time, group = Time)) +
geom_line(position = position_jitterdodge(dodge.width = 0.45)) +
geom_point(position = position_jitterdodge(dodge.width = 0.45)) +
xlab("Dimension") + ylab("Value")
Which produces the ugly:
I've obviously got something fundamentally wrong here: What should I do to make the geom_point jitter follow the geom_line jitter?
Another option for horizontal only would be to specify position_dodge and pass this to the position argument for each geom.
pd <- position_dodge(0.4)
ggplot(data = df, aes(x = dimension, y = value,
shape = Time, linetype = Time, group = Time)) +
geom_line(position = pd) +
geom_point(position = pd) +
xlab("Dimension") + ylab("Value")
One solution is to manually jitter the points:
df$value_j <- jitter(df$value)
ggplot(df, aes(dimension, value_j, shape=Time, linetype=Time, group=Time)) +
geom_line() +
geom_point() +
labs(x="Dimension", y="Value")
The horizontal solution for your discrete X axis isn't as clean (it's clean under the covers when ggplot2 does it since it handles the axis and point transformations for you quite nicely) but it's doable:
df$dim_j <- jitter(as.numeric(factor(df$dimension)))
ggplot(df, aes(dim_j, value, shape=Time, linetype=Time, group=Time)) +
geom_line() +
geom_point() +
scale_x_continuous(labels=dimension) +
labs(x="Dimension", y="Value")
On July 2017, developpers of ggplot2 have added a seed argument on position_jitter function (https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/pull/1996).
So, now (here: ggplot2 3.2.1) you can pass the argument seed to position_jitter in order to have the same jitter effect in geom_point and geom_line (see the official documentation: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/position_jitter.html)
Note that this seed argument does not exist (yet) in geom_jitter.
ggplot(data = df, aes(x = dimension, y = value,
shape = Time, linetype = Time, group = Time)) +
geom_line(position = position_jitter(width = 0.25, seed = 123)) +
geom_point(position = position_jitter(width = 0.25, seed = 123)) +
xlab("Dimension") + ylab("Value")

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