I have a dataset with a few organisms, which I would like to plot on my y-axis, against date, which I would like to plot on the x-axis. However, I want the fluctuation of the curve to represent the abundance of the organisms. I.e I would like to plot a time series with the relative abundance separated by the organism to show similar patterns with time.
However, of course, plotting just date against an organism does not yield any information on the abundance. So, my question is, is there a way to make the curve represent abundance using ggridges?
Here is my code for an example dataset:
set.seed(1)
Data <- data.frame(
Abundance = sample(1:100),
Organism = sample(c("organism1", "organism2"), 100, replace = TRUE)
)
Date = rep(seq(from = as.Date("2016-01-01"), to = as.Date("2016-10-01"), by =
'month'),times=10)
Data <- cbind(Date, Data)
ggplot(Data, aes(x = Abundance, y = Organism)) +
geom_density_ridges(scale=1.15, alpha=0.6, color="grey90")
This produces a plot with the two organisms, however, I want the date on the x-axis and not abundance. However, this doesn't work. I have read that you need to specify group=Date or change date into julian day, however, this doesn't change the fact that I do not get to incorporate abundance into the plot.
Does anyone have an example of a plot with date vs. a categorical variable (i.e. organism) plotted against a continuous variable in ggridges?
I really like to output from ggridges and would like to be able to use it for these visualizations. Thank you in advance for your help!
Cheers,
Anni
To use geom_density_ridges, it'll help to reshape the data to show observations in separate rows, vs. as summarized by Abundance.
library(ggplot2); library(ggridges); library(dplyr)
# Uncount copies the row "Abundance" number of times
Data_sum <- Data %>%
tidyr::uncount(Abundance)
ggplot(Data_sum, aes(x = Date, y = Organism)) +
ggridges::geom_density_ridges(scale=1, alpha=0.6, color="grey90")
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I have several datasets and my end goal is to do a graph out of them, with each line representing the yearly variation for the given information. I finally joined and combined my data (as it was in a per month structure) into a table that just contains the yearly means for each item I want to graph (column depicting year and subsequent rows depicting yearly variation for 4 different elements)
I have one factor that is the year and 4 different variables that read yearly variations, thus I would like to graph them on the same space. I had the idea to joint the 4 columns into one by factor (collapse into one observation per row and the year or factor in the subsequent row) but seem unable to do that. My thought is that this would give a structure to my y axis. Would like some advise, and to know if my approach to the problem is effective. I am trying ggplot2 but does not seem to work without a defined (or a pre defined range) y axis. Thanks
I would suggest next approach. You have to reshape your data from wide to long as next example. In that way is possible to see all variables. As no data is provided, this solution is sketched using dummy data. Also, you can change lines to other geom you want like points:
library(tidyverse)
set.seed(123)
#Data
df <- data.frame(year=1990:2000,
v1=rnorm(11,2,1),
v2=rnorm(11,3,2),
v3=rnorm(11,4,1),
v4=rnorm(11,5,2))
#Plot
df %>% pivot_longer(-year) %>%
ggplot(aes(x=factor(year),y=value,group=name,color=name))+
geom_line()+
theme_bw()
Output:
We could use melt from reshape2 without loading multiple other packages
library(reshape2)
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(melt(df, id.var = 'year'), aes(x = factor(year), y = value,
group = variable, color = variable)) +
geom_line()
-output plot
Or with matplot from base R
matplot(as.matrix(df[-1]), type = 'l', xaxt = 'n')
data
set.seed(123)
df <- data.frame(year=1990:2000,
v1=rnorm(11,2,1),
v2=rnorm(11,3,2),
v3=rnorm(11,4,1),
v4=rnorm(11,5,2))
I'm currently analysing some data I've retrieved from a survey and I want to create a histogram with it.
The problem is that the data is in pairs of range-absolute frequency, something like with different ranges:
Since the intervals are not the same, how can I generate the histogram in R?
Thank you in advance.
I think you want a bar chart instead of a histogram. Here's an article that explains the difference nicely.
For a barchart with the data you provided in the format you've indicated you could do something like this:
my_data <- data.frame(range = c('[0-2]','[2-5]','[5-9]'),
abs_frequency = c(2,10,5))
library(ggplot2)
plot <- ggplot(data = my_data, aes(x = range, y = abs_frequency))
plot +
geom_bar(stat="identity")
I create a dummy timeseries xts object with missing data on date 2-09-2015 as:
library(xts)
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)
set.seed(123)
seq <- seq(as.POSIXct("2015-09-01"),as.POSIXct("2015-09-02"), by = "1 hour")
ob1 <- xts(rnorm(length(seq),150,5),seq)
seq2 <- seq(as.POSIXct("2015-09-03"),as.POSIXct("2015-09-05"), by = "1 hour")
ob2 <- xts(rnorm(length(seq2),170,5),seq2)
final_ob <- rbind(ob1,ob2)
plot(final_ob)
# with ggplot
df <- data.frame(time = index(final_ob), val = coredata(final_ob) )
ggplot(df, aes(time, val)) + geom_line()+ scale_x_datetime(labels = date_format("%Y-%m-%d"))
After plotting my data looks like this:
The red coloured rectangular portion represents the date on which data is missing. How should I show that data was missing on this day in the main plot?
I think I should show this missing data with a different colour. But, I don't know how should I process data to reflect the missing data behaviour in the main plot.
Thanks for the great reproducible example.
I think you are best off to omit that line in your "missing" portion. If you have a straight line (even in a different colour) it suggests that data was gathered in that interval, that happened to fall on that straight line. If you omit the line in that interval then it is clear that there is no data there.
The problem is that you want the hourly data to be connected by lines, and then no lines in the "missing data section" - so you need some way to detect that missing data section.
You have not given a criteria for this in your question, so based on your example I will say that each line on the plot should consist of data at hourly intervals; if there's a break of more than an hour then there should be a new line. You will have to adjust this criteria to your specific problem. All we're doing is splitting up your dataframe into bits that get plotted by the same line.
So first create a variable that says which "group" (ie line) each data is in:
df$grp <- factor(c(0, cumsum(diff(df$time) > 1)))
Then you can use the group= aesthetic which geom_line uses to split up lines:
ggplot(df, aes(time, val)) + geom_line(aes(group=grp)) + # <-- only change
scale_x_datetime(labels = date_format("%Y-%m-%d"))
I have reviewed a number of posts regarding histograms/barcharts from categorical data but I still can't seem to progress. I have a data set of names (single column) and each name occurs anywhere from once to 8,000 times. I can create a table with variable and frequency and I can move that table to a data frame but o matter what I try I can't even get a barplot much less a histogram with variable on x axis and frequency on the y axis.
Ultimately, I want to use the table or dataframe with name and frequency to calculate the Z score for each name and then graph the distribution. I can do this easily with a series of numbers but doing it with a categorical variable has me stumped.
thanks,
rms
Is this what you're looking for?
example_data <- data.frame(Name = sample(paste0("Name", 1:15), size = 8000, replace=TRUE, prob = (1:15)/sum(1:15)))
counts <- as.data.frame(table(example_data))
colnames(counts) <- c("Name", "Freq")
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(data = counts, aes(x = Name, y = Freq)) + geom_bar(stat="identity")
For future reference, it's a little easier to answer if you provide a reproducible example, or go into more detail about what you've tried already. Hope this helps!
I am wondering how to dynamically set the x axis limits of a time series plot containing two time series with different dates. I have developed the following code to provide a reproducible example of my problem.
#Dummy Data
Data1 <- data.frame(Date = c("4/24/1995","6/23/1995","2/12/1996","4/14/1997","9/13/1998"), Area_2D = c(20,11,5,25,50))
Data2 <- data.frame(Date = c("6/23/1995","4/14/1996","11/3/1997","11/6/1997","4/15/1998"), Area_2D = c(13,15,18,25,19))
Data3 <- data.frame(Date = c("4/24/1995","6/23/1995","2/12/1996","4/14/1996","9/13/1998"), Area_2D = c(20,25,28,30,35))
Data4 <- data.frame(Date = c("6/23/1995","4/14/1996","11/3/1997","11/6/1997","4/15/1998"), Area_2D = c(13,15,18,25,19))
#Convert date column as date
Data1$Date <- as.Date(Data1$Date,"%m/%d/%Y")
Data2$Date <- as.Date(Data2$Date,"%m/%d/%Y")
Data3$Date <- as.Date(Data3$Date,"%m/%d/%Y")
Data4$Date <- as.Date(Data4$Date,"%m/%d/%Y")
#PLOT THE DATA
max_y1 <- max(Data1$Area_2D)
# Define colors to be used for cars, trucks, suvs
plot_colors <- c("blue","red")
plot(Data1$Date,Data1$Area_2D, col=plot_colors[1],
ylim=c(0,max_y1), xlim=c(min_x1,max_x1),pch=16, xlab="Date",ylab="Area", type="o")
par(new=T)
plot(Data2$Date,Data2$Area_2D, col=plot_colors[2],
ylim=c(0,max_y1), xlim=c(min_x1,max_x1),pch=16, xlab="Date",ylab="Area", type="o")
The main problem I see with the code above is there are two different x axis on the plot, one for Data1 and another for Data2. I want to have a single x axis spanning the date range determined by the dates in Data1 and Data2.
My questions is:
How do i dynamically create an x axis for both series? (i.e select the minimum and maximum date from the data frames 'Data1' and 'Data2')
The solution is to combine the data into one data.frame, and base the x-axis on that. This approach works very well with the ggplot2 plotting package. First we merge the data and add an ID column, which specifies to which dataset it belongs. I use letters here:
Data1$ID = 'A'
Data2$ID = 'B'
merged_data = rbind(Data1, Data2)
And then create the plot using ggplot2, where the color denotes which dataset it belongs to (can easily be changed to different colors):
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(merged_data, aes(x = Date, y = Area_2D, color = ID)) +
geom_point() + geom_line()
Note that you get one uniform x-axis here. In this case this is fine, but if the timeseries do not overlap, this might be problematic. In that case we can use multiple sub-plots, known as facets in ggplot2:
ggplot(merged_data, aes(x = Date, y = Area_2D)) +
geom_point() + geom_line() + facet_wrap(~ ID, scales = 'free_x')
Now each facet has it's own x-axis, i.e. one for each sub-dataset. What approach is most valid depends on the specific situation.