How to prevent two labels to overlap in a barchart? - r

The image below shows a chart that I created with the code below. I highlighted the missing or overlapping labels. Is there a way to tell ggplot2 to not overlap labels?
week = c(0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5)
statuses = c('Shipped', 'Shipped', 'Shipped', 'Shipped', 'Not-Shipped', 'Shipped', 'Shipped', 'Shipped', 'Not-Shipped', 'Shipped')
dat <- data.frame(Week = week, Status = statuses)
p <- qplot(factor(Week), data = dat, geom = "bar", fill = factor(Status))
p <- p + geom_bar()
# Below is the most important line, that's the one which displays the value
p <- p + stat_bin(aes(label = ..count..), geom = "text", vjust = -1, size = 3)
p

You can use a variant of the well-known population pyramid.
Some sample data (code inspired by Didzis Elferts' answer):
set.seed(654)
week <- sample(0:9, 3000, rep=TRUE, prob = rchisq(10, df = 3))
status <- factor(rbinom(3000, 1, 0.15), labels = c("Shipped", "Not-Shipped"))
data.df <- data.frame(Week = week, Status = status)
Compute count scores for each week, then convert one category to negative values:
library("plyr")
plot.df <- ddply(data.df, .(Week, Status), nrow)
plot.df$V1 <- ifelse(plot.df$Status == "Shipped",
plot.df$V1, -plot.df$V1)
Draw the plot. Note that the y-axis labels are adapted to show positive values on either side of the baseline.
library("ggplot2")
ggplot(plot.df) +
aes(x = as.factor(Week), y = V1, fill = Status) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity", position = "identity") +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = 100 * -1:5,
labels = 100 * c(1, 0:5)) +
geom_text(aes(y = sign(V1) * max(V1) / 30, label = abs(V1)))
The plot:
For production purposes you'd need to determine the appropriate y-axis tick labels dynamically.

Made new sample data (inspired by code of #agstudy).
week <- sample(0:5,1000,rep=TRUE,prob=c(0.2,0.05,0.15,0.5,0.03,0.1))
statuses <- gl(2,1000,labels=c('Not-Shipped', 'Shipped'))
dat <- data.frame(Week = week, Status = statuses)
Using function ddply() from library plyr made new data frame text.df for labels. Column count contains number of observations in each combination of Week and Status. Then added column ypos that contains cumulative sum of count for each Week plus 15. This will be used for y position. For Not-Shipped ypos replaced with -10.
library(plyr)
text.df<-ddply(dat,.(Week,Status),function(x) data.frame(count=nrow(x)))
text.df<-ddply(text.df,.(Week),transform,ypos=cumsum(count)+15)
text.df$ypos[text.df$Status=="Not-Shipped"]<- -10
Now labels are plotted with geom_text() using new data frame.
ggplot(dat,aes(as.factor(Week),fill=Status))+geom_bar()+
geom_text(data=text.df,aes(x=as.factor(Week),y=ypos,label=count))

One solution to avoid overlaps is to use to dodge position of bars and texts. To avoid missing values you can set ylim. Here an example.
## I create some more realistic data similar to your picture
week <- sample(0:5,1000,rep=TRUE)
statuses <- gl(2,1000,labels=c('Not-Shipped', 'Shipped'))
dat <- data.frame(Week = week, Status = statuses)
## for dodging
dodgewidth <- position_dodge(width=0.9)
## get max y to set ylim
ymax <- max(table(dat$Week,dat$Status))+20
ggplot(dat,aes(x = factor(Week),fill = factor(Status))) +
geom_bar( position = dodgewidth ) +
stat_bin(geom="text", position= dodgewidth, aes( label=..count..),
vjust=-1,size=5)+
ylim(0,ymax)

Based on Didzis plot you could also increase readability by keeping the position on the y axis constant and by colouring the text in the same colour as the legend.
library(ggplot2)
week <- sample(0:5,1000,rep=TRUE,prob=c(0.2,0.05,0.15,0.5,0.03,0.1))
statuses <- gl(2,1000,labels=c('Not-Shipped', 'Shipped'))
dat <- data.frame(Week = week, Status = statuses)
library(plyr)
text.df<-ddply(dat,.(Week,Status),function(x) data.frame(count=nrow(x)))
text.df$ypos[text.df$Status=="Not-Shipped"]<- -15
text.df$ypos[text.df$Status=="Shipped"]<- -55
p <- ggplot(dat,aes(as.factor(Week),fill=Status))+geom_bar()+
geom_text(data=text.df,aes(x=as.factor(Week),y=ypos,label=count),colour=ifelse(text.df$Status=="Not-Shipped","#F8766D","#00BFC4"))

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Adding geom_line between data points with different geom_boxplot fill variable

Hi I have a much larger data frame but a sample dummy df is as follows:
set.seed(23)
df = data.frame(name = c(rep("Bob",8),rep("Tom",8)),
topic = c(rep(c("Reading","Writing"),8)),
subject = c(rep(c("English","English","Spanish","Spanish"),4)),
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I have to plot it in the way shown in the picture below (for my original data frame) but with lines connecting the scores corresponding to each name between the first and second class in the exam variable, I tried geom_line(aes(group=name)) but the lines are not connected in the right way. Is there any way to connect the points that also respects the grouping by the fill variable similar to how the position_dodge() helps separate the points by their fill grouping? Thanks a lot!
library(ggplot2)
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geom_boxplot(outlier.shape = NA) +
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One option to achieve your desired result would be to group the lines by name and topic and do the dodging of lines manually instead of relying on position_dogde. To this end convert topic to a numeric for the geom_line and shift the position by the necessary amount to align the lines with the dodged points:
set.seed(23)
df <- data.frame(
name = c(rep("Bob", 8), rep("Tom", 8)),
topic = c(rep(c("Reading", "Writing"), 8)),
subject = c(rep(c("English", "English", "Spanish", "Spanish"), 4)),
exam = c(rep("First", 4), rep("Second", 4), rep("First", 4), rep("Second", 4)),
score = sample(1:100, 16)
)
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df, aes(x = topic, y = score, fill = exam)) +
geom_boxplot(outlier.shape = NA) +
geom_point(size = 1.75, position = position_dodge(width = 0.75)) +
geom_line(aes(
x = as.numeric(factor(topic)) + .75 / 4 * ifelse(exam == "First", -1, 1),
group = interaction(name, topic)
)) +
facet_grid(~subject, switch = "y")

Plot unsimilar data with ggplot

I am trying to plot the different lines, but one of the observations is far more beyond the normal scale.
library(ggplot2)
library(reshape)
library(dplyr)
a = matrix(rnorm(50, 0, 1), ncol=5)
b = c(rnorm(5, 0, 2), rnorm(5,20,2))
dt = data.frame(a,b)
rownames(dt) = paste0('Day',1:10)
colnames(dt) = c('A','B','C','D','E','F')
mdt = melt(as.matrix(dt), varnames=c('Date', 'Model'))
head(mdt)
ggplot(mdt, aes(x=Date, y=value, group=Model, color=Model))+
geom_line(size=1.2)
This is what I got:
As you can see, the large fluctuation of F enlarges my general y axis scale and makes the other five observations' trends unclear.
I tried to set the ylim=(-5,5), then I lost the entire F:
I am not entirely sure how shall I plot all of them together, but I am thinking is it possible to scale the out of range part, like the following part, or you actually wouldn't recommend this?
Any advice is highly appreciated. Thanks!
I don't know if this is the best option for you data, but you can divide each group by it's range to make it more like a ratio.
library(data.table)
library(ggplot2)
set.seed(99)
dt <- data.table(value = c(rnorm(10, 0, 5), rnorm(20)),
cat = rep(c("x", "y", "z"), each = 10),
id = rep(1:10, 3))
ggplot(dt, aes(id, value, color = cat)) +
geom_line(size = 2)
ggplot(dt[, ratio := value / diff(range(value)), cat], aes(id, ratio, color = cat)) +
geom_line(size = 2)

Move chart labels of variables in opposite directions

I couldn't find out how to do this anywhere so I thought I would post the solution now that I've figured it out.
I created a simple chart with labels based on a data set in long format (see below for dat). There are two lines and the labels overlap. I would like to move the labels for the upper chart up and for the lower chart down.
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(tidyr)
# sample data
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x = seq(1, 10, length.out = 10),
y1 = seq(1, 5, length.out = 10),
y2 = seq(1, 6, length.out = 10))
# convert to long format
dat <- dat %>%
gather(var, value, -x)
# plot it
ggplot(data = dat, aes(x = x, y = value, color = var)) +
geom_line() +
geom_label(aes(label = value))
To move the labels in opposite directions, one can create a step function in nudge_y to multiply the upper line's labels by +1 times a nudge factor and the multiply the lower line's labels by -1 times the nudge factor:
# move labels in opposite directions
ggplot(data = dat, aes(x = x, y = value, color = var)) +
geom_line() +
geom_label(aes(label = value),
nudge_y = ifelse(dat$var == "y2", 1, -1) * 1)
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Bar/Pie Chart Label from Data Frame Column

I am making a pie chart and want to label it with the value for each slice. I have the information in a data frame but the column in which to look should be defined in the function call.
The code is the (decently) long, but I think only 1 line needs to be changed. I have tried mainsym, as.symbol, as.name, quote, and anything else I could think to throw at it but to no avail.
Thanks
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library(ggplot2)
library(gridExtra)
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mainsym <- as.symbol(main)
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df <- df %>%
mutate(perc = mainsym / sum(mainsym)) %>%
mutate(label_pos = 1 - cumsum(perc) + perc / 2,
inner_label_text = paste0(round(perc * 100), "%\n",main)) #NEED HELP HERE! Replace 'main' with something
#debug print statement
print(df)
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geom_bar(stat = "identity", color = "black", width = 1) +
# add the percents and values to the interior of the chart
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coord_polar(theta = "y",direction=-1)
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donation_size_levels_same <- seq(0,2E6,10E3)
donations$bracket <- cut(donations$donation_total,breaks=donation_size_levels_same,right=FALSE,dig.lab = 50)
donations.by_bracket <- donations %>%
group_by(bracket) %>%
summarize(n=n(),total=sum(donation_total)) %>%
ungroup() %>%
arrange(bracket)
grid.arrange(
pie_chart(df=donations.by_bracket,main="n",labels="bracket",labels_title="Total Amount Donated"),
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The label placement still needs some adjustment but this seems to address the labelling issue, if you just replace that one line (where you say need help here) as follows:
mutate(label_pos = 1 - cumsum(perc) + perc / 2,
inner_label_text = paste0(round(perc * 100), "%\n",as.character(df[[main]])))

Fill area between two lines, with high/low and dates

Forword: I provide a reasonably satisfactory answer to my own question. I understand this is acceptable practice. Naturally my hope is to invite suggestions and improvements.
My purpose is to plot two time series (stored in a dataframe with dates stored as class 'Date') and to fill the area between the data points with two different colors according to whether one is above the other. For instance, to plot an index of Bonds and an index of Stocks, and to fill the area in red when the Stock index is above the bond index, and to fill the area in blue otherwise.
I have used ggplot2 for this purpose, because I am reasonably familiar with the package (author: Hadley Wickham), but feel free to suggest other approaches. I wrote a custom function based on the geom_ribbon() function of the ggplot2 package. Early on I faced problems related to my lack of experience in handling the geom_ribbon() function and objects of class 'Date'. The function below represents my effort to solve these problems, almost surely it is roundabout, unecessarily complicated, clumsy, etc.. So my question is: Please suggest improvements and/or alternative approaches. Ultimately, it would be great to have a general-purpose function made available here.
Data:
set.seed(123456789)
df <- data.frame(
Date = seq.Date(as.Date("1950-01-01"), by = "1 month", length.out = 12*10),
Stocks = 100 + c(0, cumsum(runif(12*10-1, -30, 30))),
Bonds = 100 + c(0, cumsum(runif(12*10-1, -5, 5))))
library('reshape2')
df <- melt(df, id.vars = 'Date')
Custom Function:
## Function to plot geom_ribbon for class Date
geom_ribbon_date <- function(data, group, N = 1000) {
# convert column of class Date to numeric
x_Date <- as.numeric(data[, which(sapply(data, class) == "Date")])
# append numeric date to dataframe
data$Date.numeric <- x_Date
# ensure fill grid is as fine as data grid
N <- max(N, length(x_Date))
# generate a grid for fill
seq_x_Date <- seq(min(x_Date), max(x_Date), length.out = N)
# ensure the grouping variable is a factor
group <- factor(group)
# create a dataframe of min and max
area <- Map(function(z) {
d <- data[group == z,];
approxfun(d$Date.numeric, d$value)(seq_x_Date);
}, levels(group))
# create a categorical variable for the max
maxcat <- apply(do.call('cbind', area), 1, which.max)
# output a dataframe with x, ymin, ymax, is. max 'dummy', and group
df <- data.frame(x = seq_x_Date,
ymin = do.call('pmin', area),
ymax = do.call('pmax', area),
is.max = levels(group)[maxcat],
group = cumsum(c(1, diff(maxcat) != 0))
)
# convert back numeric dates to column of class Date
df$x <- as.Date(df$x, origin = "1970-01-01")
# create and return the geom_ribbon
gr <- geom_ribbon(data = df, aes(x, ymin = ymin, ymax = ymax, fill = is.max, group = group), inherit.aes = FALSE)
return(gr)
}
Usage:
ggplot(data = df, aes(x = Date, y = value, group = variable, colour = variable)) +
geom_ribbon_date(data = df, group = df$variable) +
theme_bw() +
xlab(NULL) +
ylab(NULL) +
ggtitle("Bonds Versus Stocks (Fake Data!)") +
scale_fill_manual('is.max', breaks = c('Stocks', 'Bonds'),
values = c('darkblue','darkred')) +
theme(legend.position = 'right', legend.direction = 'vertical') +
theme(legend.title = element_blank()) +
theme(legend.key = element_blank())
Result:
While there are related questions and answers on stackoverflow, I haven't found one that was sufficiently detailed for my purpose. Here is a selection of useful exchanges:
create-geom-ribbon-for-min-max-range: Asks a similar question, but provides less detail than I was looking for.
possible-bug-in-geom-ribbon: Closely related, but intermediate steps on how to compute max/min are missing.
fill-region-between-two-loess-smoothed-lines-in-r-with-ggplot: Closely related, but focuses on loess lines. Excellent.
ggplot-colouring-areas-between-density-lines-according-to-relative-position : Closely related, but focuses on densities. This post greatly inspired me.
Perhaps I'm not understanding your full problem but it seems that a fairly direct approach would be to define a third line as the minimum of the two time series at each time point. geom_ribbon is then called twice (once for each unique value of Asset) to plot the ribbons formed by each of the series and the minimum line. Code could look like:
set.seed(123456789)
df <- data.frame(
Date = seq.Date(as.Date("1950-01-01"), by = "1 month", length.out = 12*10),
Stocks = 100 + c(0, cumsum(runif(12*10-1, -30, 30))),
Bonds = 100 + c(0, cumsum(runif(12*10-1, -5, 5))))
library(reshape2)
library(ggplot2)
df <- cbind(df,min_line=pmin(df[,2],df[,3]) )
df <- melt(df, id.vars=c("Date","min_line"), variable.name="Assets", value.name="Prices")
sp <- ggplot(data=df, aes(x=Date, fill=Assets))
sp <- sp + geom_ribbon(aes(ymax=Prices, ymin=min_line))
sp <- sp + scale_fill_manual(values=c(Stocks="darkred", Bonds="darkblue"))
sp <- sp + ggtitle("Bonds Versus Stocks (Fake Data!)")
plot(sp)
This produces following chart:
I actually had the same question some time ago and here is the related post. It defines a function finding the intersections between two lines and an other function which takes a dataframe in input and then colors the space between the two columns using matplotand polygon
EDIT
Here is the code, modified a bit to allow the last polygon to be plotted
set.seed(123456789)
dat <- data.frame(
Date = seq.Date(as.Date("1950-01-01"), by = "1 month", length.out = 12*10),
Stocks = 100 + c(0, cumsum(runif(12*10-1, -30, 30))),
Bonds = 100 + c(0, cumsum(runif(12*10-1, -5, 5))))
intersects <- function(x1, x2) {
seg1 <- which(!!diff(x1 > x2)) # location of first point in crossing segments
above <- x2[seg1] > x1[seg1] # which curve is above prior to crossing
slope1 <- x1[seg1+1] - x1[seg1]
slope2 <- x2[seg1+1] - x2[seg1]
x <- seg1 + ((x2[seg1] - x1[seg1]) / (slope1 - slope2))
y <- x1[seg1] + slope1*(x - seg1)
data.frame(x=x, y=y, pindex=seg1, pabove=(1:2)[above+1L])
# pabove is greater curve prior to crossing
}
fillColor <- function(data, addLines=TRUE) {
## Find points of intersections
ints <- intersects(data[,2], data[,3]) # because the first column is for Dates
intervals <- findInterval(1:nrow(data), c(0, ints$x))
## Make plot
matplot(data, type="n", col=2:3, lty=1, lwd=4,xaxt='n',xlab='Date')
axis(1,at=seq(1,dim(data)[1],length.out=12),
labels=data[,1][seq(1,dim(data)[1],length.out=12)])
legend("topright", c(colnames(data)[2], colnames(data)[3]), col=3:2, lty=1, lwd=2)
## Draw the polygons
for (i in seq_along(table(intervals))) {
xstart <- ifelse(i == 1, 0, ints$x[i-1])
ystart <- ifelse(i == 1, data[1,2], ints$y[i-1])
xend <- ints$x[i]
yend <- ints$y[i]
x <- seq(nrow(data))[intervals == i]
polygon(c(xstart, x, xend, rev(x)), c(ystart, data[x,2], yend, rev(data[x,3])),
col=ints$pabove[i]%%2+2)
}
# add end of plot
xstart <- ints[dim(ints)[1],1]
ystart <- ints[dim(ints)[1],2]
xend <- nrow(data)
yend <- data[dim(data)[1],2]
x <- seq(nrow(data))[intervals == max(intervals)]
polygon(c(xstart, x, xend, rev(x)), c(ystart, data[x,2], yend, rev(data[x,3])),
col=ints[dim(ints)[1]-1,4]%%2+2)
## Add lines for curves
if (addLines)
invisible(lapply(1:2, function(x) lines(seq(nrow(data)), data[,x], col=x%%2+2, lwd=2)))
}
## Plot the data
fillColor(dat,FALSE)
and the final result is this (with the same data used for the question)
#walts answer should remain the winner but while implementing his solution, I gave it a tidy update.
library(tidyverse)
set.seed(2345)
# fake data​
raw_data <-
tibble(
date = as.Date("2020-01-01") + (1:40),
a = 95 + cumsum(runif(40, min = -20, max = 20)),
b = 55 + cumsum(runif(40, min = -1, max = 1))
)
​
# the steps
# the 'y' + 'min_line' + 'group' is the right granularity (by date) to
# create 2 separate ribbons
df <-
raw_data %>%
# find min of the two columns
mutate(min_line = pmin(a, b)) %>%
pivot_longer(c(a, b), names_to = "group", values_to = "y") %>%
print()
​
# the result
ggplot(data = df, aes(x = date, fill = group)) +
geom_ribbon(aes(ymax = y, ymin = min_line)) +
theme_classic()
another option using ggh4x - requires the data to be wide with y for lines 1 and 2 in different columns.
library(ggh4x)
#> Loading required package: ggplot2
set.seed(123456789)
df <- data.frame(
Date = seq.Date(as.Date("1950-01-01"), by = "1 month", length.out = 12*10),
Stocks = 100 + c(0, cumsum(runif(12*10-1, -30, 30))),
Bonds = 100 + c(0, cumsum(runif(12*10-1, -5, 5))))
## The data frame is NOT made long!!
ggplot(data = df, aes(x = Date)) +
stat_difference(aes(ymin = Stocks, ymax = Bonds)) +
scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set1")
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