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i'm having troubles in a multi axis barplot. I have an X,Y axis with bars and dots in the same graph. The point is that I have to shown both of them in different scales
While I can shown both (bars and dots) correctly, the problem comes when I try to set different scales in left and right axis. I dont know how to change the aditional axis scale, and how to bind the red dots to the right axis, and the bars to the left one.
This is my code and what I get:
labels <- value
mp <- barplot(height = churn, main = title, ylab = "% churn", space = 0, ylim = c(0,5))
text(mp, par("usr")[3], labels = labels, srt = 45, adj = c(1.1,1.1), xpd = TRUE, cex=.9)
# Population dots
points(popul, col="red", bg="red", pch=21, cex=1.5)
# Churn Mean
media <- mean(churn)
abline(h=media, col = "black", lty=2)
# Population scale
axis(side = 4, col= "red")
ylim= c(0,50)
ylim= c(0,5)
What I want is to have left(grey) axis at ylim=c(0,5) with the bars bound to that axis. And the right(red) axis at ylim=c(0,50) with the dots bound to that axis...
The goal is to represent bars and points in the same graph with diferent axis.
Hope I explained myself succesfully.
Thanks for your assistance!
Here is a toy example. The only "trick" is to store the x locations of the bar centers and the limits of the x axis when creating the barplot, so that you can overlay a plot with the same x axis and add your points over the centers of the bars. The xaxs = "i" in the call to plot.window indicates to use the exact values given rather than expanding by a constant (the default behavior).
set.seed(1234)
dat1 <- sample(10, 5)
dat2 <- sample(50, 5)
par(mar = c(2, 4, 2, 4))
cntrs <- barplot(dat1)
xlim0 <- par()$usr[1:2]
par(new = TRUE)
plot.new()
plot.window(xlim = xlim0, ylim = c(0, 50), xaxs = "i")
points(dat2 ~ cntrs, col = "darkred")
axis(side = 4, col = "darkred")
Related
I am doing quarterly analysis, for which I want to plot a graph. To maintain continuity on x axis I have turned quarters into factors. But then when I am using plot function and trying to color it red, the col argument is not working.
An example:
quarterly_analysis <- data.frame(Quarter = as.factor(c(2020.1,2020.2,2020.3,2020.4,2021.1,2021.2,2021.3,2021.4)),
AvgDefault = as.numeric(c(0.24,0.27,0.17,0.35,0.32,0.42,0.38,0.40)))
plot(quarterly_analysis, col="red")
But I am getting the graph in black color as shown below:
Converting it to a factor is not ideal to plot unless you have multiple values for each factor - it tries to plot a box plot-style plot. For example, with 10 observations in the same factor, the col = "red" color shows up as the fill:
set.seed(123)
fact_example <- data.frame(factvar = as.factor(rep(LETTERS[1:3], 10)),
numvar = runif(30))
plot(fact_example$factvar, fact_example$numvar,
col = "red")
With only one observation for each factor, this is not ideal because it is just showing you the line that the box plot would make.
You could use border = "red:
plot(quarterly_analysis$Quarter,
quarterly_analysis$AvgDefault, border="red")
Or if you want more flexibility, you can plot it numerically and do a little tweaking for more control (i.e., can change the pch, or make it a line graph):
# make numeric x values to plot
x_vals <- as.numeric(substr(quarterly_analysis$Quarter,1,4)) + rep(seq(0, 1, length.out = 4))
par(mfrow=c(1,3))
plot(x_vals,
quarterly_analysis$AvgDefault, col="red",
pch = 7, main = "Square Symbol", axes = FALSE)
axis(1, at = x_vals,
labels = quarterly_analysis$Quarter)
axis(2)
plot(x_vals,
quarterly_analysis$AvgDefault, col="red",
type = "l", main = "Line graph", axes = FALSE)
axis(1, at = x_vals,
labels = quarterly_analysis$Quarter)
axis(2)
plot(x_vals,
quarterly_analysis$AvgDefault, col="red",
type = "b", pch = 7, main = "Both", axes = FALSE)
axis(1, at = x_vals,
labels = quarterly_analysis$Quarter)
axis(2)
Data
set.seed(123)
quarterly_analysis <- data.frame(Quarter = as.factor(paste0(2019:2022,
rep(c(".1", ".2", ".3", ".4"),
each = 4))),
AvgDefault = runif(16))
quarterly_analysis <- quarterly_analysis[order(quarterly_analysis$Quarter),]
I am trying to display barchart overlayed with line plot on secondary y-axis. I was following example here: http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/r-graph-with-two-y-axes/. I successfully display my data, however the beginning of the y1 and y2 axis do not start on the common base (on the common 0), the y2 is located further up.
How to correctly align y1 and y2 axes on the common basis? Can I extent both of my y1 and y2 axis in the same size? And, how can I adjust the position of the points in the middle of the bars?
My dummy data:
x <- 1:5
y1 <- c(10,53,430,80,214)
y2 <- c(0.2,1.2,3.3, 3.5, 4.2)
# create new window
windows()
# set margins
par(mar=c(5,4,4,5)+.1)
# create bar plot with primary axis (y1)
barplot(y1, ylim= c(0,500))
mtext("y1",side=2,line=3)
# add plot with secondary (y2) axis
par(new=TRUE)
plot(x, y2,,type="b",col="red",xaxt="n",yaxt="n",xlab="",ylab="", ylim= c(0,10), lwd = 2, lty = 2, pch = 18)
axis(4)
mtext("y2",side=4,line=3)
When you check the documentation for par() you will find the options xaxsand yaxs with which you can control the interval calculation for both axes. Calling par(yaxs = 'i') prior to your plot() command or using the option directly as an argument to plot() will change the interval calculation in the following way:
Style "i" (internal) just finds an axis with pretty labels that fits
within the original data range.
Additional information for the TO concerning his comment:
In order to center the points of the line go with lines instead and you can use the x-axis created by barplot:
par(mar=c(5,4,4,5)+.1)
# create bar plot with primary axis (y1)
par(xpd = F)
ps <- barplot(y1, ylim= c(0,500), xpd = F)
axis(4, at = 0:5 * 100, labels = 0:5 * 2) # transform values
mtext('y1',side = 2, line = 3)
lines(x = ps, y = y2 * 50, type = 'b', col = 'red') # transform values
When adding ticks to a plot (more ticks than default), how does one get the grid() to align the grid to the ticks?
plot(1:10,las=1,xaxp = c(0, 10, 10),xlim=c(0,10), ylim=c(0,10))
grid(lwd=2, nx=10, ny=10)
Tried changed the xlim and different numbers for the nx arg in grid (number of cells), but the grid simply doesn't line up.
Related, but doesn't answer question: Aligning grid lines in R, bReeze package
Related, and uses workaround: Align grid with ticks
Is the workaround the most efficient option?
You could use abline to draw grids. You can specify where the grids should be with h (for horizontal lines) and v (for vertical lines)
#Plot
plot(1:10,las=1,xaxp = c(0, 10, 10),xlim=c(0,10), ylim=c(0,10))
#Add horizontal grid
abline(h = c(0,2,4,6,8,10), lty = 2, col = "grey")
#Add vertical grid
abline(v = 1:10, lty = 2, col = "grey")
Another workaround is to use axis where tck value is 1. With axis, you can specify where the grids should be with at
#Plot
plot(1:10,las=1,xaxp = c(0, 10, 10),xlim=c(0,10), ylim=c(0,10))
#Add horizontal grid
axis(2, at = c(0,2,4,6,8,10), tck = 1, lty = 2, col = "grey", labels = NA)
#Add vertical grid
axis(1, at = 1:10, tck = 1, lty = 2, col = "grey", labels = NA)
#Add box around plot
box()
The problem is that grid is putting nx grid lines in the user space, but plot is adding 4% extra space on each side. You can take control of this. Adding xaxs="i", yaxs="i" to your plot will turn off the extra space. But then your upper right point will be cut off, so you need to change the xlim and ylim values and change nx to match. Final code is:
plot(1:10,las=1,xaxp = c(0, 10, 10),xlim=c(0,11), ylim=c(0,11),
xaxs="i", yaxs="i")
grid(lwd=2, nx=11, ny=11)
The answer to your question
When adding ticks to a plot (more ticks than default), how does one get the grid() to align the grid to the ticks?
is:
Using function axis to obtain the x axis tick locations created by plot function in combination with abline
Concretely, you substitute the line
grid(lwd=2, nx=10, ny=10)
by the following three lines
x_ticks <- axis(1, 0:10, labels = FALSE)
grid(lwd = 2, ny = NULL, nx = NA)
abline(v = x_ticks, lwd = 2, lty = 3, col = "lightgray")
and the result will be
You can control both x ticks and y ticks and get rid of the grid function. In this case the 3 lines would be
x_ticks <- axis(1, 0:10, labels = FALSE)
y_ticks <- axis(2, labels = FALSE)
abline(v = x_ticks, h = y_ticks, lwd = 2, lty = 3, col = "lightgray")
I would vote for the workaround. Because if you look at manual from ?grid, it has this statement,
"Note: If more fine tuning is required, use ‘abline(h = ., v = .)’
directly."
I have created a plot in R and my own custom x and y axes. I would like the x axis to be displayed in a reverse order (1-0 by -.02). I have read numerous posts and threads that suggest using xlim and reverse range but I just can't seem to make it work. Once plotted I am also converting the axes labels to percentages by multiplying by 100 (as you will see in the code). Here is what I have so far;
plot(roc.val, xlab = "Specificity (%)", ylab = "Sensitivity (%)", axes = FALSE)
axis(2, at = seq(0,1,by=.2), labels = paste(100*seq(0,1, by=.2)), tick = TRUE)
axis(1, at = seq(0,1,by=.2), labels = paste(100*seq(0,1, by=.2)), tick = TRUE)
How can I reverse the x axis scale so that the values begin at 100 and end at 0 with increments of 20?
I think this creates a plot in which the y-axis is in reverse order:
x <- seq(-4, 4, length = 10)
y <- exp(x) / (1 + exp(x))
plot(x,y, ylim = rev(range(y)))
This removes the axis values:
x <- seq(-4, 4, length = 10)
y <- exp(x) / (1 + exp(x))
plot(x,y, ylim = rev(range(y)), labels = FALSE)
I guess you can assign the axis values you want then with a variation of your lines:
axis(2, at = seq(0,1,by=.2), labels = paste(100*seq(0,1, by=.2)), tick = TRUE)
axis(1, at = seq(0,1,by=.2), labels = paste(100*seq(0,1, by=.2)), tick = TRUE)
df <- data.frame(x=seq(0,1, length.out=50), y=seq(0, 1, length.out=50))
plot(df)
df$x1 <- (max(df$x) - df$x)/ (max(df$x) - min(df$x))
plot(df$x1, df$y, axes=F, xlab = "Specificity (%)", ylab = "Sensitivity (%)")
axis(2, at = seq(0,1,by=.2), labels = paste(100*seq(0,1, by=.2)), tick = TRUE)
axis(1, at = seq(0,1,by=.2), labels = paste(100*seq(1,0, by=-.2)), tick = TRUE)
Adapting Mark Miller's answer to solve a similar problem (I found this topic by looking for the solution) and I found a variation of his solution in https://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/03/0342.html.
Basically if you want to reverse the X-axis values in the plot, instead of using ylim=rev(range(y)), you can use xlim=rev(c(-4,4)).
x <- seq(-4, 4, length = 10)
y <- exp(x) / (1 + exp(x))
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(x, y, ylim=range(y), xlim=c(-4, 4))
plot(x, y, ylim=range(y), xlim=rev(c(-4, 4)))
plot1
And if you want to keep the x-axis values in the true order, you can use this:
par(mfrow=c(1,1))
plot(x, y, ylim=range(y), xlim=c(-4, 4), axes=FALSE)
par(new=TRUE)
plot(-100, -100, ylim=range(y), xlim=c(-4, 4), axes=FALSE, xlab="", ylab="", main="")
axis(1, at = seq(-4,4,by=1), labels = seq(-4,4,by=1), tick = TRUE)
axis(2, at = seq(0,1,by=.2), labels = paste(100*seq(0,1, by=.2)), tick = TRUE)
plot2
I'm posting this solution because I needed something very straightforward to solve my problem. And the solution for it needed the plot with the X-axis value in the correct order (and not reversed).
First, check out the ggplot2 library for making beautiful and extendable graphics. It is part of the Tidyverse approach to R and a gamechanger if you have not been exposed to it.
For example, to solve your issue using ggplot, you simply add the term scale_x_reverse() to your graphic.
See: http://ggplot.yhathq.com/docs/scale_x_reverse.html
I'm trying to move the x-axis labeling and tick marks above the plot on top. Here's my code.
ucsplot <- plot(ucs, depth, main= "Depth vs. UCS", xlab = "UCS (psi)", ylab="Depth (ft)", type="l", col="blue", xlim=c(0, max(dfplot[,3]+5000)), ylim = rev(range(depth)))
ucsplot
How do I get the x-axis labeling and tick marks to appear only on top, instead of the bottom? Also, how do I get the title to not sit right on top of the numbers right above the tick marks? Also, how do I get the chart to start not offset a little bit to the right? As in the zero and starting numbers are in the corners of the plot and not offset.
Seems the OP is looking for a plot where x-axis is at top. The data has not been provided by OP. Hence using a sample dataframe, solution can be displayed as:
df <- data.frame(a = 1:10, b = 41:50)
plot(a ~ b, data = df, axes = FALSE, xlab = NA, ylab = NA)
axis(side = 2, las = 1)
axis(side = 3, las = 1)