Inserting pch data point symbols into axis labels in R - r

I have combined two data sets into one graph and I would like to add the corresponding pch symbols right into the axis labels.
Now, I know that solutions using text() instead of xlab and ylab and Hershey vector fonts (instead of citing a pch=16, etc.) are given here and here but the symbols appear kinda wonky-shaped. Does anyone have a more "well-rounded" solution?
thinkoholic.com's reproducible example,
par(mar=c(5,5,2,5))
# create data and plot circles
x <- seq(0,5,0.5)
y <- seq(0,5,0.5)
plot(x,y, xlab="", ylab="")
#create random data and add bullets (pch=19)
x <- rnorm(20,2.5)
y <- rnorm(20,2.5)
points(x,y, pch=19)
#add y axis on right side
axis (side = 4)
#create text with symbols
text(-1,2.5,"\\#H0850 y1 axis text", vfont=c("sans serif","plain"), cex=1.25, adj=0.5, srt=90, xpd=TRUE)
text(6,2.5,"\\#H0902 y2 axis text", vfont=c("sans serif","plain"), cex=1.25, adj=0.5, srt=90, xpd=TRUE)
text(2.5,-1,"x axis text", vfont=c("sans serif","plain"), cex=1.25, adj=0.5, srt=0, xpd=TRUE)

If you insist on doing this:
par(mar=c(5,5,2,5), xpd=TRUE)
x <- seq(0,5,0.5)
y <- seq(0,5,0.5)
plot(x,y, xlab="", ylab="")
text(-1,2.5,"y axis text", cex=1.25, adj=0, srt=90)
points(-1,2.4)

This should work:
mtext(paste0("your label text", " (", intToUtf8(9679), ")"), side = 2, line=2.5)

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how to plot matlab style log-log plot using R plot

ENV
R version 3.3.1
MAC OSX 10.9.4
I would like to plot a style like figure below, which is plotted by matlab.
There is full grid on the plot with customized axis range (e.g. $10^0~10^{-4}$) and axis label (e.g. 10^0 10^1 10^-2 10^-3 10^-4 10^-5). There are ten ticks between 10^0 and 10^1 and also other labels. Similar for y axis.
Expected:
I tried:
initial.dir<-getwd()
setwd("/Rworks/bin")
sink("r.o")
pk <- read.table("2017.file)
rownames(pk)<-c("k","pk")
d.f <- data.frame(t(pk))
png(file="m.png")
plot(
d.f$k,
d.f$pk,
type = "n",
log = "xy",
xlim = c( 10^0, 10^2),
ylim = c( 0.00001, 1),
)
lines( d.f$k, d.f$pk, col = "green4", lty = "dotted")
points( d.f$k, d.f$pk, bg = "limegreen", pch = 21 )
box()
dev.off
sink()
setwd(initial.dir)
I got:
The axis and axis label and the ticks and grid is not what I want. Can anyone can give an advices? Thanks.
Worst case scenario, you can just draw the axes and background lines yourself.
plot(
x=c(1,2), y=c(0.6,0.2),
pch=21, bg="red",
log = "xy",
xlim = c( 10^0, 10^2),
ylim = c( 0.00001, 1),
xaxt="n", yaxt="n",
xlab="", ylab="",
yaxs="i"
)
lines(x=c(1,2), y=c(0.6,0.2))
axis(1, at=10^(0:2),
labels=expression(10^0, 10^1, 10^2))
axis(2, at=10^(-5:0), las=1,
labels=expression(10^-5, 10^-4, 10^-3, 10^-2, 10^-1, 10^0))
abline(h=outer((1:10),(10^(-5:-1))), col="#00000033", lty=2)
abline(v=outer((1:10),(10^(0:1))), col="#00000033", lty=2)
Here's an example - it's not exactly what you want (e.g. you could play around with theme options such as panel.grid.minor to get dotted grid lines), but it's most of the way there.
Exponential-format axis tick labels, from here:
fancy_scientific <- function(l) {
# turn in to character string in scientific notation
l <- format(l, scientific = TRUE)
# quote the part before the exponent to keep all the digits
l <- gsub("^(.*)e", "'\\1'e", l)
# turn the 'e+' into plotmath format
l <- gsub("e", "%*%10^", l)
# return this as an expression
parse(text=l)
}
Manual ticks from #G5W's answer: might be possible to write a function to do this automatically, or one might exist somewhere.
yticks = outer((1:10),(10^(-5:-1)))
xticks = outer((1:10),(10^(0:1)))
Draw the plot (with #G5W's sample mini-data)
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(data.frame(x=1:2,y=c(0.6,0.2)),
aes(x,y))+
geom_point(colour="red")+
scale_x_log10(limits=c(1,100),labels=fancy_scientific,
minor_breaks=xticks)+
scale_y_log10(limits=c(1e-5,1),labels=fancy_scientific,
minor_breaks=yticks)+
theme_bw()

Altering the margins of a legend in R

I am very new to R, so I'm struggling here a bit and I haven't found an answer to my problem.
I'm trying to produce a simple bar-chart in R, and I have set my x-axis variable labels to be vertical, using las=2. I then changed the margins for the barplot so that the labels would not overlap the xlab label, using par(mar=c(20,15,5,3)) and par(mgp=c(6,1,0)).
I would like to add a legend to this, but the one I have has adopted the margin dimensions of the graph itself, so that it appears too big and does not fit. I tried using cex but that only affects the text in the legend. Is there anyway for me to change the legend margins (or the graph margins) independently?
Here's what I have coded:
par(mar=c(20,15,5,3))
par(mgp=c(6,1,0))
par(xpd=TRUE)
barplot(
names.arg=c("Africa", "Central America, South America, Caribbean",
"Middle East", "Central and Eastern Europe",
"South and East Asia"),
cex.names=0.8, las=2, t(YLL),
ylab="Percentage (%)", ylim=c(0,100), main="", beside=TRUE,
col= c("green4", "orange"),xlab="Regions", mar=c(20,15,5,3)
)
legend(
10, 100,
legend=c("Communicable diseases", "Communicable diseases"),
fill= c("green4", "orange"), cex=0.7
)
I will really appreciate the help, thanks.
You can also use the arguments of legend function: y.intersp, x.intersp and text.width for reduce the size of the legend.
Here an example:
set.seed(55) # Set the seed of R‘s random number generator
x <- 1:10
y <- runif(10, min=0, max=100) # Generating random numbers
z <- runif(10, min=0, max=100) # Generating random numbers
plot(x,y, type="l", ylim=c(0,100), ylab="y and z")
par(new=TRUE)
plot(x,z, type="l", col="red", ylim=c(0,100), ylab=NA, xaxt='n', yaxt='n')
legend("topright", c("y","z"), lty="solid", col=c("black", "red"))
And same code modifiying the legend function:
set.seed(55) # Set the seed of R‘s random number generator
x <- 1:10
y <- runif(10, min=0, max=100) # Generating random numbers
z <- runif(10, min=0, max=100) # Generating random numbers
plot(x,y, type="l", ylim=c(0,100), ylab="y and z")
par(new=TRUE)
plot(x,z, type="l", col="red", ylim=c(0,100), ylab=NA, xaxt='n', yaxt='n')
legend("topright", c("y","z"), lty="solid", col=c("black", "red"), y.intersp=0.5,x.intersp=0.5,text.width=0.1)
I don't know if I understood your problem correctly, but maybe you can try x.intersp or y.intersp to modify the spacing in the x and y axis of your legend. For example, you could add x.intersp=0.5 to bring the elements of your legend closer in the x axis.
If this does not work and you provide a screenshot, maybe I could try to help you better.

Arrange points and lines in an r plot legend

Is it possible to rearrange the legend of the following plot
plot(1,1, type="n")
legend("topleft", c("1", "2"), col=c("darkblue", "darkred"), pch = 1, bty = "n", horiz = T, lwd=1.25, cex=1.8)
to look like this ("point-line-point" pattern)?
Usually, if you want this level of control over plot elements, you'll have to do it manually with primitives (points(), lines()/segments(), text(), etc.) and careful calculations from the plot parameters (e.g. par('usr')). It's not easy. Here's an example of how this could be done:
point.line.point <- function(x1,y1,x2=x1,y2=y1,...) {
points(c(x1,x2),c(y1,y2),...);
segments(x1,y1,x2,y2,...);
};
legend.plp <- function(x,y,labels,col,linewidth=diff(par('usr')[1:2])/10,textgap=diff(par('usr')[1:2])/20,...) {
comb <- cbind(labels,col);
xc <- x;
for (i in seq_len(nrow(comb))) {
x2 <- xc+linewidth;
point.line.point(xc,y,x2,col=comb[i,'col'],...);
text(x2+textgap,y,comb[i,'labels'],...);
xc <- x2+textgap*1.5+strwidth(comb[i,'labels']);
};
};
plot(1,1,type="n");
legend.plp(par('usr')[1]+diff(par('usr')[1:2])/20,par('usr')[4]-diff(par('usr')[3:4])/20,1:2,c('darkblue','darkred'),font=2,cex=1.5);
Here is an alternative solution that is the opposite of elegant. It involves embedding a couple of plots (one per legend), and a great deal of manual manipulation (to set the 'legends' where you want them to be):
library(Hmisc)
data(mtcars)
#plots the one in blue
plot(mtcars$cyl, type="o", col="darkblue")
#plots the one in red
lines(mtcars$carb, type="o", col="darkred")
#name the legends
text(6.5,7, "Cyl", font=2)
text(14,7, "Carb", font=2)
#add the subplots, it's actually a normal plot wrapped around the subplot with the x and y positions
subplot(plot(c(1,0),c(1,1), xlab=NA, ylab=NA, xaxt="n", yaxt="n", col="darkblue", type="o", axes=FALSE), 3, 7)
subplot(plot(c(1,0),c(1,1), xlab=NA, ylab=NA, xaxt="n", yaxt="n", col="darkred", type="o", axes=FALSE), 10, 7)
That yields the following plot:

Plot area too short for Y axis (base graphics)

I have created this data frame:
seq(1,70)
Group <-paste("a", 1:70, sep="")
Counts <- c(1:18, 5:14, 1:20, 5:20, 10:15)
When plotted, it returns a large plot where "Group" does not fit:
barplot(Counts, names.arg=Group,
horiz=TRUE, las=1, cex.names=0.6, border=NA,
ylim=c(0,30), xlim=c(0,20), width = 1.5)
EDIT: this is the plot after deleting ylim=c(0,30)
I would like to be able to see each term on the "Group" axis.
The ylim argument is constraining how many groups are shown. Remove it and you can see all of them.
I tried:
barplot(stage1_90$Percentage.stage1,
names.arg=stage1_90$miR.stage1,
horiz=TRUE, las=1, cex.names=0.5, border=NA,
ylim=c(0,125), xlim=c(0,14), main = "Stage 1. Top 90%",
xlab = "% total expression", space = 1, yaxs = "i")
And then I printed out in A4 format

How can I make the following plot using R?

I would like to make a plot with 4 axes in R so that it looks similar to this plot:
I've looked at the Quick-R website for advice and modified one of their examples (called A Silly Axis Example):
# specify the data
x <- c(1:5); y <- x/2;
w <- c(2:4)
z <- c(1:5)
# create extra margin room on the right for an axis
par(mar=c(5, 4, 4, 8) + 0.1)
# plot x vs. y
plot(x, y,type="b", pch=21, col="red",
yaxt="n", lty=3, xlab="", ylab="")
# add x vs. 1/x
lines(x, z, type="b", pch=22, col="blue", lty=2)
# draw an axis on the left
axis(2, at=x,labels=x, col.axis="red", las=2)
# draw an axis on the right, with smaller text and ticks
axis(4, at=w,labels=round(w,digits=2),
col.axis="blue", las=2, cex.axis=0.7, tck=-.01)
# draw an axis on the top
axis(3, at=z,labels=round(z,digits=2),
col.axis="blue", las=2, cex.axis=0.7, tck=-.01)
# add a title for the right axis
mtext("L", side=3, line=3, cex.lab=1,las=2, col="blue")
# add a title for the right axis
mtext("OSR", side=4, line=3, cex.lab=1,las=2, col="red")
# add a main title and bottom and left axis labels
title("", xlab="GSI", ylab="FSI")
This code produces the following plot:
I'm having difficulty figuring out how different axes can have different scales. For example, I want the top axis L, to go from 5 - 13, but if I set z <-c(5:13) it will not set the axis to these values. However, I can overwrite what the labels are:
axis(3, at=z,labels=round(c(9:13),digits=2), col.axis="blue",
las=2, cex.axis=0.7, tck=-.01)
but then if I want to plot a point with these four parameters, the point will not show up in the correct place. How should I do this?
One (perhaps cumbersome) option would be to write conversion functions that transform values between your two scales. Assuming you know the data ranges for both the top and bottom axes ahead of time, you could write a function like this:
convertScaleToBottom <- function(x,botRange,topRange){
temp <- (x - topRange[1]) / (topRange[2] - topRange[1])
return(botRange[1] + (temp * (botRange[2] - botRange[1])))
}
that takes a set of values, x, in the top axis scale and converts them to the bottom axis scale. Then you can plot the converted values and retain the originals as the labels:
z1 <- 5:13
z1Adj <- convertScaleToBottom(z1,range(x),range(z1))
# draw an axis on the top
axis(3, at=z1Adj,labels=round(z1,digits=2),
col.axis="blue", las=2, cex.axis=0.7, tck=-.01)
This method is easily modified to reverse the order of the top axis:
convertScaleToBottomRev <- function(x,botRange,topRange){
temp <- (x - topRange[1]) / (topRange[2] - topRange[1])
return(botRange[2] - (temp * (botRange[2] - botRange[1])))
}

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