I am creating a flexdashboard with R markdown / shiny.
Assumed the dashboard has two identical scatter plots. Is there a way to synchronize the two charts, if I zoom into one of them? Which is the best package to achieve this and to have it on the flexdashboard?
I tried Plotly. But there I could only synchronize one axis, but not both at the same time. If the charts are vertically oriented it would synchronize the x axis, and if horizontally oriented it would synchronize the y axis.
I am still trying dygraph. I have the impression by grouping the charts, I might be able to synchronize the zoom. Is that right? Would it synchronize both axis at the same time? (Only problem, this is mainly a time series tool, and not meant for scatter plots, i.e. not for data with more than one value per x value. At least this is my impression.)
Is there a package able to handle x and y axis synchronization at the same time? Or did I miss anything with Plotly/dygraph?
Thanks for your help.
For those interested. Rbokeh does scatterplots and allows synchronizing both axes. Use the grid_plot function to plot your charts and set same_axes = TRUE.
dygraphs synchronizes only the date range (x axis), if you set the parameter group. To synchronize the y axis you can try to get the zoom callback and to apply the zoom level to the other plot.
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The group function in dygraphs is particularly useful for a series of related plots if you want to x-axis zoom in unison. I was looking for a feature or parameter that would also allow the mouseover legend values to be synchronized across the grouped dygraphs. I see some functionality in the package relating to mouseover, however nothing with x or y coordinates in R.
This would be for use in a shinyapp.
I would like to draw $3$ dimensional scatter plots, or more precisely I have a program that gives me the mass distribution in the unit cube with respect to a 3 dimensional equidistant grid. You can interpret this as a continuous relaxation of a $3$ dimensional assignment problem if you want.
Anyway this is just to give you a very brief background since my actual problem is not really concerned with the maths behind the procedure but with the visualization. I have:
$n$ points in the unit cube $[0,1]^3$
each of the $n$ points is assigned a "weight" between $0$ and $\frac1n$ (typically a lot of the weights coincide, if there are too many different values, i use the cut command to reduce the range to, say $60$ different values)
And I'd like to plot the $n$ points in a color which corresponds to their weight.
Now I found the rgl Package in R which allows me to do exactly that and also provides a very nice interactive plot window but it doesn't seem to allow a "col key" parameter, i.e. I cannot add a continuous color legend to my plot.
On the other hand the package plot3D provides a function to do a $3$ dimensional scatterplot and easily allows me to add the col key. However plot3D does not work with interactive plots but merely gives me the option to specify the angle at which I want to look at the cube. In a $3$D setting I strongly prefer the interactive alternative.
Now is there a way to automatically add a continuous color legend to an rgl plot? If not, do you know why this hasn't been implemented? Or would you solve my problem completely different altogether?
P.S. sorry for the formatting, I'm new to SO and the math environment "$" doesn't seem to work here.
The reason this hasn't been implemented is because until fairly recently it wasn't easy to have a static legend and a dynamic plot in the same window.
Now it's easy; there's a legend3d() function that might do what you want, but I think you probably want a different sort of legend than it will draw. If you know how to draw what you want in 2D, you can use the bgplot3d() function to put it in the background of your plot.
Both of those options give bitmapped legends. It would also be possible to do vector-based legends, but that would be quite a bit more work.
I am trying to build an interactive plot. It has properties between a scatterplot and a network - I have a list of nodes and edges (network), but I also would like to constrain the nodes, sometimes on the x-axis sometimes on both x- and y- axis (scatterplot). Finally, I have a text label associated with each node that I would like to display (instead of a dot). I was able to create this using ggplot2.
However, some data sets are too large for this to work without the text labels from each node overlapping. Hence, I would now like to add an interactive feature so that the plot consists of dots representing each node, but that upon UI (such as hovering over a dot), the text label belonging to that dot will be revealed.
I would like to achieve this using R.
I tried animint (https://github.com/tdhock/animint) but it seems to mostly allow interaction between two plots, and here I would like to keep it all in one plot.
I also tried htmlwidgets (http://www.htmlwidgets.org/). I looked at two of their packages: I tried using metricsgraphics (mjs_plot), as it has a show_rollover_text option and mouseover option. However, this package does not allow combination of geoms, and so I could not have both dots (nodes) and lines (edges) represented. I also tried network3D package, but that seems to automatically position nodes so that they are distanced far away from each other, and does not seem to provide options to fix each node on a given x and y location.
I am just looking for advice on any other packages I should maybe consider to solve this problem and/or if I may be missing a feature from a package I already tried that could solve this problem. Thank you.
Maybe identify() will be useful for you. But it works only for base plotting system.
x <- rnorm(300)
y <- rnorm(300)
labs <- seq(300)
plot(x,y)
identify(x,y, labels = labs, plot=TRUE)
identify pic
I try to receive the data from a sensor from time to time and plot it in real time. That means the length of the dataset is not know before hand. And need to adjust the range of the graph dynamically.
I tried the following
plot(1,10, xlim=range(0,10), ylim=range(0,10), type='n')
points(1,data[1])
points(2,data[2])
But once the number of dots is beyond the range of x axis (10 in this case), the data points are out of the range. How to adjust the range accordingly?
Just issue a new plot command with an expanded range. On modern computers the time taken to recreate the plot is small and you generally will not see a delay. Any other approach will essentially do the same thing, clear the current plot and create a new plot.
The ggplot2 and lattice packages have ways of constructing a plot and updating the plot, but when the updated plot is shown it is redrawn from scratch.
There is a zoomplot function in the TeachingDemos package which will allow you to change the range of a plot, but it also will just redraw the plot from scratch (and due to changes in R 3.0.0 it is not currently working, so if you wanted to use it you would need to go back to R 2.15 or before, or wait for it to be fixed).
You can't adjust the range dynamically (sometimes Excel is better). However, you can keep track of what you've plotted, and redo the plot when you've reached the limit. You could also just make a new plot every time you get more data, which would be a way of faking a dynamic update.
Using R I would like to replace the points in a 2d scatter plot by a pie chart displaying additional values.
The rational behind is that I have time series data for hundreds of elements (proteins) derived from a biological experiment monitored for 4 conditions. I would like to plot the elements (categorial data) on the y axis and occurrence of a event in time on the x axis. To visualize the relative occurrence between the 4 conditions I would like to visualize this in form of a pie chart or doughnut chart overplayed onto the respective point in the scatter plot.
The overall data density is low so overlapping won't be an issue.
Is this possible in R?
I was thinking of using a manual scale in ggplot2 but could not figure out how to define a pie chart as a scale.
Also of interest would be how to best cluster this data and sort it accordingly.
Yes. pieGlyph() is one ready-to-go function from the Rgraphviz package.
Also, I would check out this Q/A for how to do things like this more generally:
How to fill a single 'pch' point on the plot with two-colours?
Especially check out ?my.symbols from the TeachingDemos package.
Lastly, in regards to ggplot2, you should check out this blog post about possible upcoming features:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/10/ggplot2-for-big-data.html
See also Paul Murrell. Integrating grid graphics output with base graphics output. R News, 3(2):7-12, October 2003. http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2003-2.pdf
The code on pp 10-11 sets up the main plot axes, labels and legend, and then opens a series of smaller windows centered at each individual point on the plot and plots a small graph in each window. I've tried pie charts, mosaics and barplots, but the method is not limited to these types.