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I am trying to make a graph in ggplot2 of 7 points in the shape of a circle, but trying to graph them only shows me 6 and I don't know why this happens.
The code is the following:
# Function for the points
circleFun <- function(center = c(-1, 1), diameter = 1, npoints = 7) {
r <- diameter / 2
tt <- seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = npoints)
xx <- center[1] + r * cos(tt)
yy <- center[2] + r * sin(tt)
return(data.frame(x = xx, y = yy))
}
# example with 7 points
ej <-
circleFun(diameter = 50, center = c(50,50), npoints = 7)
# plot
ej |>
ggplot(aes(x = x, y = y)) +
geom_point(alpha = 0.4) +
theme_bw()
Does anyone know why this happens?
Rows 1 and 7 are identical, so their points are overlapped. The dot is a bit darker (per your alpha = 0.4). You can make this obvious by adding x = jitter(x) (For demonstration, not that you'd do that in production). I'm not sure what you're expecting to see given the identical data.
If you want 7 distinct points, then I suggest you create n+1 and remove the last (or first) point.
circleFun <- function(center = c(-1, 1), diameter = 1, npoints = 7) {
r <- diameter / 2
tt <- seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = npoints + 1) # changed
xx <- center[1] + r * cos(tt)
yy <- center[2] + r * sin(tt)
data.frame(x = xx, y = yy)[-1,,drop = FALSE] # changed
}
## unchanged from here on
ej <-
circleFun(diameter = 50, center = c(50,50), npoints = 7)
ej |>
ggplot(aes(x = x, y = y)) +
geom_point(alpha = 0.4) +
theme_bw()
(BTW, there is no need for an explicit call to return(.), especially when it is the only end-point of the function and "obvious" based on data flow. It certainly doesn't hurt, but it adds one step on the call stack that adds no value. It may be declarative/self-documenting, and as such this is a style/subjective point.)
I'm teaching undergrad statistics and trying to make a useful little R script to help my students understand calculating probabilities in the standard normal distribution. I have this script, which takes zscore breakpoints, calculates the fraction of data between each breakpoint, and colors each breakpoint section:
library(tidyverse)
library(ggplot2)
library(magrittr)
sim_dat = data.frame(z = seq(-5,5, length.out = 1001))
sim_dat$y = dnorm(sim_dat$z, mean = 0, sd=1)
#fill in z-score bkpts, excluding zero: 0 will always be included
zscores <- c(-1,1.5)
zscores <- sort( setdiff(zscores,0) )
bkpoints <- sort( c(-Inf, zscores,0, Inf))
#find pct data between brekpoints
pctdata <- numeric(length=length(bkpoints)-1)
interval <- character(length=length(bkpoints)-1)
for(i in 1:length(pctdata)){
pctdata[i] <- plyr::round_any( pnorm(q=bkpoints[i+1]) - pnorm(q=bkpoints[i]) , 0.0001)
interval[i] <- paste0(bkpoints[i],",",bkpoints[i+1])
}
pctdata_df <- cbind.data.frame(interval,pctdata,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
sim_dat$standard_normal_sections = cut(sim_dat$z, breaks = bkpoints)
p1 <- ggplot2::ggplot(sim_dat, aes(z, y, fill = standard_normal_sections)) + geom_area() +
scale_x_continuous(breaks= c(seq(-5,5,1), zscores))
p1
pctdata_df
I'd like to use pctdata_df$pctdata(vector of how much data is in section of p1) as labels. I'm finding very little on how to add labels to geom_area. Any help is appreciated!
There is nothing special about geom_area. If you want to add labels you could do so with geom_text where you pass your pctdata_df to the data argument. As you gave no information on where you want to add your labels I have put them beneath the area chart.
Note: There is no need for a for loop. You could simply pass a vector to pnorm or paste.
library(scales)
library(ggplot2)
# find pct data between brekpoints
lower <- bkpoints[1:(length(bkpoints) - 1)]
upper <- bkpoints[2:length(bkpoints)]
pctdata <- pnorm(q = upper) - pnorm(q = lower)
interval <- paste0(lower, ",", upper)
pctdata_df <- data.frame(interval, lower, upper, pctdata)
pctdata_df$x_label <- with(pctdata_df, ifelse(is.infinite(lower), upper - 1, .5 * (lower + upper)))
pctdata_df$x_label <- with(pctdata_df, ifelse(is.infinite(upper), lower + 1, x_label))
sim_dat$standard_normal_sections <- cut(sim_dat$z, breaks = bkpoints)
ggplot(sim_dat, aes(z, y)) +
geom_area(aes(fill = standard_normal_sections)) +
geom_text(data = pctdata_df, aes(x = x_label, y = 0, label = scales::number(pctdata, .01)),
vjust = 1, size = 8 / .pt, nudge_y = -.01) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(seq(-5, 5, 1), zscores))
I have a large dataset of gene expression from ~10,000 patient samples (TCGA), and I'm plotting a predicted expression value (x) and the actual observed value (y) of a certain gene signature. For my downstream analysis, I need to draw a precise line through the plot and calculate different parameters in samples above/below the line.
No matter how I draw a line through the data (geom_smooth(method = 'lm', 'glm', 'gam', or 'loess')), the line always seems imperfect - it doesn't cut through the data to my liking (red line is lm in figure).
After playing around for a while, I realized that the 2d kernel density lines (geom_density2d) actually do a good job of showing the slope/trends of my data, so I manually drew a line that kind of cuts through the density lines (black line in figure).
My question: how can I automatically draw a line that cuts through the kernel density lines, as for the black line in the figure? (Rather than manually playing with different intercepts and slopes till something looks good).
The best approach I can think of is to somehow calculate intercept and slope of the longest diameter for each of the kernel lines, take an average of all those intercepts and slopes and plot that line, but that's a bit out of my league. Maybe someone here has experience with this and can help?
A more hacky approach may be getting the x,y coords of each kernel density line from ggplot_build, and going from there, but it feels too hacky (and is also out of my league).
Thanks!
EDIT: Changed a few details to make the figure/analysis easier. (Density lines are smoother now).
Reprex:
library(MASS)
set.seed(123)
samples <- 10000
r <- 0.9
data <- mvrnorm(n=samples, mu=c(0, 0), Sigma=matrix(c(2, r, r, 2), nrow=2))
x <- data[, 1] # standard normal (mu=0, sd=1)
y <- data[, 2] # standard normal (mu=0, sd=1)
test.df <- data.frame(x = x, y = y)
lm(y ~ x, test.df)
ggplot(test.df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(color = 'grey') +
geom_density2d(color = 'red', lwd = 0.5, contour = T, h = c(2,2)) + ### EDIT: h = c(2,2)
geom_smooth(method = "glm", se = F, lwd = 1, color = 'red') +
geom_abline(intercept = 0, slope = 0.7, lwd = 1, col = 'black') ## EDIT: slope to 0.7
Figure:
I generally agree with #Hack-R.
However, it was kind of a fun problem and looking into ggplot_build is not such a big deal.
require(dplyr)
require(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(test.df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_density2d(color = 'red', lwd = 0.5, contour = T, h = c(2,2))
#basic version of your plot
p_built <- ggplot_build(p)
p_data <- p_built$data[[1]]
p_maxring <- p_data[p_data[['level']] == min(p_data[['level']]),] %>%
select(x,y) # extracts the x/y coordinates of the points on the largest ellipse from your 2d-density contour
Now this answer helped me to find the points on this ellipse which are furthest apart.
coord_mean <- c(x = mean(p_maxring$x), y = mean(p_maxring$y))
p_maxring <- p_maxring %>%
mutate (mean_dev = sqrt((x - mean(x))^2 + (y - mean(y))^2)) #extra column specifying the distance of each point to the mean of those points
coord_farthest <- c('x' = p_maxring$x[which.max(p_maxring$mean_dev)], 'y' = p_maxring$y[which.max(p_maxring$mean_dev)])
# gives the coordinates of the point farthest away from the mean point
farthest_from_farthest <- sqrt((p_maxring$x - coord_farthest['x'])^2 + (p_maxring$y - coord_farthest['y'])^2)
#now this looks which of the points is the farthest from the point farthest from the mean point :D
coord_fff <- c('x' = p_maxring$x[which.max(farthest_from_farthest)], 'y' = p_maxring$y[which.max(farthest_from_farthest)])
ggplot(test.df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_density2d(color = 'red', lwd = 0.5, contour = T, h = c(2,2)) +
# geom_segment using the coordinates of the points farthest apart
geom_segment((aes(x = coord_farthest['x'], y = coord_farthest['y'],
xend = coord_fff['x'], yend = coord_fff['y']))) +
geom_smooth(method = "glm", se = F, lwd = 1, color = 'red') +
# as per your request with your geom_smooth line
coord_equal()
coord_equal is super important, because otherwise you will get super weird results - it messed up my brain too. Because if the coordinates are not set equal, the line will seemingly not pass through the point furthest apart from the mean...
I leave it to you to build this into a function in order to automate it. Also, I'll leave it to you to calculate the y-intercept and slope from the two points
Tjebo's approach was kind of good initially, but after a close look, I found that it found the longest distance between two points on an ellipse. While this is close to what I wanted, it failed with either an irregular shape of the ellipse, or the sparsity of points in the ellipse. This is because it measured the longest distance between two points; whereas what I really wanted is the longest diameter of an ellipse; i.e.: the semi-major axis. See image below for examples/details.
Briefly:
To find/draw density contours of specific density/percentage:
R - How to find points within specific Contour
To get the longest diameter ("semi-major axis") of an ellipse:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18278767/3579613
For function that returns intercept and slope (as in OP), see last piece of code.
The two pieces of code and images below compare two Tjebo's approach vs. my new approach based on the above posts.
#### Reprex from OP
require(dplyr)
require(ggplot2)
require(MASS)
set.seed(123)
samples <- 10000
r <- 0.9
data <- mvrnorm(n=samples, mu=c(0, 0), Sigma=matrix(c(2, r, r, 2), nrow=2))
x <- data[, 1] # standard normal (mu=0, sd=1)
y <- data[, 2] # standard normal (mu=0, sd=1)
test.df <- data.frame(x = x, y = y)
#### From Tjebo
p <- ggplot(test.df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_density2d(color = 'red', lwd = 0.5, contour = T, h = 2)
p_built <- ggplot_build(p)
p_data <- p_built$data[[1]]
p_maxring <- p_data[p_data[['level']] == min(p_data[['level']]),][,2:3]
coord_mean <- c(x = mean(p_maxring$x), y = mean(p_maxring$y))
p_maxring <- p_maxring %>%
mutate (mean_dev = sqrt((x - mean(x))^2 + (y - mean(y))^2)) #extra column specifying the distance of each point to the mean of those points
p_maxring = p_maxring[round(seq(1, nrow(p_maxring), nrow(p_maxring)/23)),] #### Make a small ellipse to illustrate flaws of approach
coord_farthest <- c('x' = p_maxring$x[which.max(p_maxring$mean_dev)], 'y' = p_maxring$y[which.max(p_maxring$mean_dev)])
# gives the coordinates of the point farthest away from the mean point
farthest_from_farthest <- sqrt((p_maxring$x - coord_farthest['x'])^2 + (p_maxring$y - coord_farthest['y'])^2)
#now this looks which of the points is the farthest from the point farthest from the mean point :D
coord_fff <- c('x' = p_maxring$x[which.max(farthest_from_farthest)], 'y' = p_maxring$y[which.max(farthest_from_farthest)])
farthest_2_points = data.frame(t(cbind(coord_farthest, coord_fff)))
plot(p_maxring[,1:2], asp=1)
lines(farthest_2_points, col = 'blue', lwd = 2)
#### From answer in another post
d = cbind(p_maxring[,1], p_maxring[,2])
r = ellipsoidhull(d)
exy = predict(r) ## the ellipsoid boundary
lines(exy)
me = colMeans((exy))
dist2center = sqrt(rowSums((t(t(exy)-me))^2))
max(dist2center) ## major axis
lines(exy[dist2center == max(dist2center),], col = 'red', lwd = 2)
#### The plot here is made from the data in the reprex in OP, but with h = 0.5
library(MASS)
set.seed(123)
samples <- 10000
r <- 0.9
data <- mvrnorm(n=samples, mu=c(0, 0), Sigma=matrix(c(2, r, r, 2), nrow=2))
x <- data[, 1] # standard normal (mu=0, sd=1)
y <- data[, 2] # standard normal (mu=0, sd=1)
test.df <- data.frame(x = x, y = y)
## MAKE BLUE LINE
p <- ggplot(test.df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_density2d(color = 'red', lwd = 0.5, contour = T, h = 0.5) ## NOTE h = 0.5
p_built <- ggplot_build(p)
p_data <- p_built$data[[1]]
p_maxring <- p_data[p_data[['level']] == min(p_data[['level']]),][,2:3]
coord_mean <- c(x = mean(p_maxring$x), y = mean(p_maxring$y))
p_maxring <- p_maxring %>%
mutate (mean_dev = sqrt((x - mean(x))^2 + (y - mean(y))^2))
coord_farthest <- c('x' = p_maxring$x[which.max(p_maxring$mean_dev)], 'y' = p_maxring$y[which.max(p_maxring$mean_dev)])
farthest_from_farthest <- sqrt((p_maxring$x - coord_farthest['x'])^2 + (p_maxring$y - coord_farthest['y'])^2)
coord_fff <- c('x' = p_maxring$x[which.max(farthest_from_farthest)], 'y' = p_maxring$y[which.max(farthest_from_farthest)])
## MAKE RED LINE
## h = 0.5
## Given the highly irregular shape of the contours, I will use only the largest contour line (0.95) for draing the line.
## Thus, average = 1. See function below for details.
ln = long.diam("x", "y", test.df, h = 0.5, average = 1) ## NOTE h = 0.5
## PLOT
ggplot(test.df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_density2d(color = 'red', lwd = 0.5, contour = T, h = 0.5) + ## NOTE h = 0.5
geom_segment((aes(x = coord_farthest['x'], y = coord_farthest['y'],
xend = coord_fff['x'], yend = coord_fff['y'])), col = 'blue', lwd = 2) +
geom_abline(intercept = ln[1], slope = ln[2], color = 'red', lwd = 2) +
coord_equal()
Finally, I came up with the following function to deal with all this. Sorry for the lack of comments/clarity
#### This will return the intercept and slope of the longest diameter (semi-major axis).
####If Average = TRUE, it will average the int and slope across different density contours.
long.diam = function(x, y, df, probs = c(0.95, 0.5, 0.1), average = T, h = 2) {
fun.df = data.frame(cbind(df[,x], df[,y]))
colnames(fun.df) = c("x", "y")
dens = kde2d(fun.df$x, fun.df$y, n = 200, h = h)
dx <- diff(dens$x[1:2])
dy <- diff(dens$y[1:2])
sz <- sort(dens$z)
c1 <- cumsum(sz) * dx * dy
levels <- sapply(probs, function(x) {
approx(c1, sz, xout = 1 - x)$y
})
names(levels) = paste0("L", str_sub(formatC(probs, 2, format = 'f'), -2))
#plot(fun.df$x,fun.df$y, asp = 1)
#contour(dens, levels = levels, labels=probs, add=T, col = c('red', 'blue', 'green'), lwd = 2)
#contour(dens, add = T, col = 'red', lwd = 2)
#abline(lm(fun.df$y~fun.df$x))
ls <- contourLines(dens, levels = levels)
names(ls) = names(levels)
lines.info = list()
for (i in 1:length(ls)) {
d = cbind(ls[[i]]$x, ls[[i]]$y)
exy = predict(ellipsoidhull(d))## the ellipsoid boundary
colnames(exy) = c("x", "y")
me = colMeans((exy)) ## center of the ellipse
dist2center = sqrt(rowSums((t(t(exy)-me))^2))
#plot(exy,type='l',asp=1)
#points(d,col='blue')
#lines(exy[order(dist2center)[1:2],])
#lines(exy[rev(order(dist2center))[1:2],])
max.dist = data.frame(exy[rev(order(dist2center))[1:2],])
line.fit = lm(max.dist$y ~ max.dist$x)
lines.info[[i]] = c(as.numeric(line.fit$coefficients[1]), as.numeric(line.fit$coefficients[2]))
}
names(lines.info) = names(ls)
#plot(fun.df$x,fun.df$y, asp = 1)
#contour(dens, levels = levels, labels=probs, add=T, col = c('red', 'blue', 'green'), lwd = 2)
#abline(lines.info[[1]], col = 'red', lwd = 2)
#abline(lines.info[[2]], col = 'blue', lwd = 2)
#abline(lines.info[[3]], col = 'green', lwd = 2)
#abline(apply(simplify2array(lines.info), 1, mean), col = 'black', lwd = 4)
if (isTRUE(average)) {
apply(simplify2array(lines.info), 1, mean)
} else {
lines.info[[average]]
}
}
Finally, here's the final implementation of the different answers:
library(MASS)
set.seed(123)
samples = 10000
r = 0.9
data = mvrnorm(n=samples, mu=c(0, 0), Sigma=matrix(c(2, r, r, 2), nrow=2))
x = data[, 1] # standard normal (mu=0, sd=1)
y = data[, 2] # standard normal (mu=0, sd=1)
#plot(x, y)
test.df = data.frame(x = x, y = y)
#### Find furthest two points of contour
## BLUE
p <- ggplot(test.df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_density2d(color = 'red', lwd = 2, contour = T, h = 2)
p_built <- ggplot_build(p)
p_data <- p_built$data[[1]]
p_maxring <- p_data[p_data[['level']] == min(p_data[['level']]),][,2:3]
coord_mean <- c(x = mean(p_maxring$x), y = mean(p_maxring$y))
p_maxring <- p_maxring %>%
mutate (mean_dev = sqrt((x - mean(x))^2 + (y - mean(y))^2))
coord_farthest <- c('x' = p_maxring$x[which.max(p_maxring$mean_dev)], 'y' = p_maxring$y[which.max(p_maxring$mean_dev)])
farthest_from_farthest <- sqrt((p_maxring$x - coord_farthest['x'])^2 + (p_maxring$y - coord_farthest['y'])^2)
coord_fff <- c('x' = p_maxring$x[which.max(farthest_from_farthest)], 'y' = p_maxring$y[which.max(farthest_from_farthest)])
#### Find the average intercept and slope of 3 contour lines (0.95, 0.5, 0.1), as in my long.diam function above.
## RED
ln = long.diam("x", "y", test.df)
#### Plot everything. Black line is GLM
ggplot(test.df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point(color = 'grey') +
geom_density2d(color = 'red', lwd = 1, contour = T, h = 2) +
geom_smooth(method = "glm", se = F, lwd = 1, color = 'black') +
geom_abline(intercept = ln[1], slope = ln[2], col = 'red', lwd = 1) +
geom_segment((aes(x = coord_farthest['x'], y = coord_farthest['y'],
xend = coord_fff['x'], yend = coord_fff['y'])), col = 'blue', lwd = 1) +
coord_equal()
I want to add shaded areas to a chart to help people understand where bad, ok, and good points can fit.
Good = x*y>=.66
Ok = x*y>=.34
Bad = x*y<.34
Generating the right sequence of data to correctly apply the curved boundaries to the chart is proving tough.
What is the most elegant way to generate the curves?
Bonus Q: How would you do this to produce non-overlapping areas so that different colours could be used?
Updates
I've managed to do in a rather hacky way the drawing of the circle segments. I updated the MRE to use the revised segMaker function.
MRE
library(ggplot2)
pts<-seq(0,1,.02)
x<-sample(pts,50,replace=TRUE)
y<-sample(pts,50,replace=TRUE)
# What function will generate correct sequence of values as these are linear?
segMaker<-function(x,by){
# Original
# data.frame(x=c(seq(0,x,by),0)
# ,y=c(seq(x,0,-by),0)
# )
zero <- data.frame(x = 0, y = 0)
rs <- seq(0, pi, by)
xc <- x * cos(rs)
yc <- x * sin(rs)
gr <- data.frame(x = xc, y = yc)
gr <- rbind(gr[gr$x >= 0, ], zero)
return(gr)
}
firstSeg <-segMaker(.34,0.02)
secondSeg <-segMaker(.66,0.02)
thirdSeg <-segMaker(1,0.02)
ggplot(data.frame(x,y),aes(x,y, colour=x*y))+
geom_point() +
geom_polygon(data=firstSeg, fill="blue", alpha=.25)+
geom_polygon(data=secondSeg, fill="blue", alpha=.25)+
geom_polygon(data=thirdSeg, fill="blue", alpha=.25)
Current & desired shadings
You can create a data frame with the boundaries between each region and then use geom_ribbon to plot it. Here's an example using the conditions you supplied (which result in boundaries that are the reciprocal function, rather than circles, but the idea is the same, whichever function you use for the boundaries):
library(ggplot2)
# Fake data
pts<-seq(0,1,.02)
set.seed(19485)
x<-sample(pts,50,replace=TRUE)
y<-sample(pts,50,replace=TRUE)
df = data.frame(x,y)
# Region boundaries
x = seq(0.001,1.1,0.01)
bounds = data.frame(x, ymin=c(-100/x, 0.34/x, 0.66/x),
ymax=c(0.34/x, 0.66/x, 100/x),
g=rep(c("Bad","OK","Good"), each=length(x)))
bounds$g = factor(bounds$g, levels=c("Bad","OK","Good"))
ggplot() +
coord_cartesian(ylim=0:1, xlim=0:1) +
geom_ribbon(data=bounds, aes(x, ymin=ymin, ymax=ymax, fill=g), colour="grey50", lwd=0.2) +
geom_point(data=df, aes(x,y), colour="grey20") +
scale_fill_manual(values=hcl(c(15, 40, 240), 100, 80)) +
#scale_fill_manual(values=hcl(c(15, 40, 240), 100, 80, alpha=0.25)) + # If you want the fill colors to be transparent
labs(fill="") +
guides(fill=guide_legend(reverse=TRUE))
For circular boundaries, assuming we want boundaries at r=1/3 and r=2/3:
# Calculate y for circle, given r and x
cy = function(r, x) {sqrt(r^2 - x^2)}
n = 200
x = unlist(lapply(c(1/3,2/3,1), function(to) seq(0, to, len=n)))
bounds = data.frame(x, ymin = c(rep(0, n),
cy(1/3, seq(0, 1/3, len=n/2)), rep(0, n/2),
cy(2/3, seq(0, 2/3, len=2*n/3)), rep(0, n/3)),
ymax = c(cy(1/3, seq(0,1/3,len=n)),
cy(2/3, seq(0,2/3,len=n)),
rep(1,n)),
g=rep(c("Bad","OK","Good"), each=n))
bounds$g = factor(bounds$g, levels=c("Bad","OK","Good"))
If you can use a github package, ggforce adds geom_arc_bar():
# devtools::install_github('thomasp85/ggforce')
library(ggplot2)
library(ggforce)
pts<-seq(0,1,.02)
x<-sample(pts,50,replace=TRUE)
y<-sample(pts,50,replace=TRUE)
arcs <- data.frame(
x0 = 0,
y0 = 0,
start = 0,
end = pi / 2,
r0 = c(0, 1/3, 2/3),
r = c(1/3, 2/3, 1),
fill = c("bad", "ok", "good")
)
ggplot() +
geom_arc_bar(data = arcs,
aes(x0 = x0, y0 = y0, start = start, end = end, r0 = r0, r = r,
fill = fill), alpha = 0.6) +
geom_point(data = data.frame(x = x, y = y),
aes(x = x, y = y))
Based on #eipi10's great answer, to do the product component (basically ends up with the same thing) I did:
library(ggplot2)
library(data.table)
set.seed(19485)
pts <- seq(0, 1, .001)
x <- sample(pts, 50, replace = TRUE)
y <- sample(pts, 50, replace = TRUE)
df <- data.frame(x,y)
myRibbon<-CJ(pts,pts)
myRibbon[,prod:=V1 * V2]
myRibbon[,cat:=ifelse(prod<=1/3,"bad",
ifelse(prod<=2/3,"ok","good"))]
myRibbon<-myRibbon[
,.(ymin=min(V2),ymax=max(V2))
,.(cat,V1)]
ggplot() +
geom_ribbon(data=myRibbon
, aes(x=V1, ymin=ymin,ymax=ymax
, group=cat, fill=cat),
colour="grey90", lwd=0.2, alpha=.5)+
geom_point(data=df, aes(x,y), colour="grey20") +
theme_minimal()
This doesn't do anything fancy but works out for each value of x, what the smallest and largest values were that could give rise to a specific banding.
If I had just wanted arcs, the use of ggforce (#GregF) would be really great- it tucks away all the complexity.
I can plot multiple simultaneous time series that undergo changepoints and regimes using ggplot2, and I can use colour to make the regimes clear (plotting different sections in different colors using geom_rect). I need to produce a plot that makes it clear where the regimes are without the use of color. With three regimes it is possible to distinguish between the regimes using white, black and gray for shading, but it is difficult to tell them apart if more than three regimes are present.
I've put an example of a plot that I can make using color, I'd be very grateful if someone can suggest a plot that conveys the same information without the use of color.
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)
# generate 3 time series and store them in a data frame
generate_cp_ts <- function(tau, params) {
ts(c(arima.sim(model = list(ar = 0.2), n = tau[1], rand.gen = function(n) params[1] * rnorm(n)), arima.sim(model = list(ar = 0.2), n = tau[2] - tau[1], rand.gen = function(n) params[2] * rnorm(n)), arima.sim(model = list(ar = 0.2), n = tau[3] - tau[2], rand.gen = function(n) params[3] * rnorm(n)), arima.sim(model = list(ar = 0.2), n = tau[4] - tau[3], rand.gen = function(n) params[4] * rnorm(n))))
}
tau <- 100 * (1:4)
ts1 <- generate_cp_ts(tau, c(1.7, 0.3, 1.7, 1.7))
ts2 <- generate_cp_ts(tau, c(0.3, 2, 0.3, 0.9))
ts3 <- generate_cp_ts(tau, c(2, 2, 0.1, 0.7))
tsframe <- data.frame(ts = c(ts1, ts2, ts3), ts_level = factor(paste("Time Series", rep(1:3, each = 400))), time = rep(1:400, 3))
# Work out which colors are needed to color the plot and store in a data frame
CPs <- c(0, tau)
colour.frame <- data.frame(regime.from = rep(CPs[-length(CPs)], each = 3), regime.to = rep(CPs[-1], each = 3), ts_level = factor(paste("Time Series", rep(c(1:3), length(CPs) - 1))), regime = factor(c(0,0,0, 1,1,0, 0,0,1, 0,2,2) + 1))
# Plotting
qplot(x = time, y = ts, data = tsframe, facets = ts_level ~ ., alpha = I(1), geom = "line", ylab = "Time Series", xlab = "Time") +
geom_rect(aes(NULL, NULL, xmin = regime.from, xmax = regime.to, fill = regime), ymin = -6, ymax = 6, data = colour.frame) +
scale_fill_manual(values = alpha(c("blue", "red", "green"), 0.2))
Plot generated by the above code
After you created colour.frame you can insert this code:
tdf <- colour.frame
tdf$xval <- (tdf$regime.from + tdf$regime.to)/2
tdf$yval <- max(tsframe$ts) * 0.8 # if 0.8 is higher (0.9) then the text is set higher
ggplot(tsframe, aes(x = time, y = ts)) +
geom_line() +
facet_grid(ts_level~.) +
geom_vline(xintercept = CPs) + # maybe play around with linetype
geom_text(aes(x = xval, y = yval, label = regime), data = tdf)
which gives this plot: