Problem with radarchart using fmbs library - r

Question

I'm helping a friend making figures to her publication. She need radar charts, send me the data. I'm using fmsb library in R, but have some problem. The data is the following (some modified, because it's unpublished :) )
consequences
timeline
personal control
treatment
control
identity
concern
comprehensibility
emotions
Min
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Max
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
Mean
7.74
6.14
5.2
2.82
7.12
7.18
2.44
7.26
The code:
radarchart(chaos_story2,
axistype = 4,
axislabcol = "black",
seg = 5,
caxislabels= c(0,2,4,6,8,10),
cglcol="black")
The problem, that it seems the radarchart use the 1-mean values to plot the means, not the actual values. How I can solve this?
Thank you in advance

Answer 1

The issue is that the min and max rows are in the wrong order. According to the docs ?radarchart:
If maxmin is TRUE, this must include maximum values as row 1 and minimum values as row 2 for each variables, and actual data should be given as row 3 and lower rows.
Fixing the order gives the desired result.
Note: There is probably an issue with your example data, i.e. I dropped the consequences column as it contained the rownames.
library(fmsb)
# Max has to be first row, min the second
chaos_story2 <- chaos_story2[c(2, 1, 3), ]
radarchart(chaos_story2,
axistype = 4,
axislabcol = "black",
seg = 5,
caxislabels= c(0,2,4,6,8,10),
cglcol="black")
DATA
chaos_story2 <- data.frame(
consequences = c("Min", "Max", "Mean"),
timeline = c(0, 10, 7.74),
personal.control = c(0, 10, 6.14),
treatment = c(0, 10, 5.2),
control = c(0, 10, 2.82),
identity = c(0, 10, 7.12),
concern = c(0, 10, 7.18),
comprehensibility = c(0, 10, 2.44),
emotions = c(0, 10, 7.26)
)
rownames(chaos_story2) <- chaos_story2$consequences
chaos_story2$consequences <- NULL
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