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My general problem: I tend to struggle using ggplot, because it's very data-frame-centric but the objects I work with seem to fit matrices better than data frames. Here is an example (adapted a little).
I have a quantity x that can assume values 0:5, and a "context" that can have values 0 or 1. For each context I have 7 different frequency distributions over the quantity x. (More generally I could have more than two "contexts", more values of x, and more frequency distributions.)
I can represent these 7×2 frequency distributions as a list freqs of two matrices, say:
> freqs
$`context0`
x0 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
sample1 20 10 10 21 37 2
sample2 34 40 6 10 1 8
sample3 52 4 1 2 17 25
sample4 16 32 25 11 5 10
sample5 28 2 10 4 21 35
sample6 22 13 35 12 13 5
sample7 9 5 43 29 4 10
$`context1`
x0 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
sample1 15 21 14 15 14 21
sample2 27 8 6 5 29 25
sample3 13 7 5 26 48 0
sample4 33 3 18 11 13 22
sample5 12 23 40 11 2 11
sample6 5 51 2 28 5 9
sample7 3 1 21 10 63 2
or a 3D array.
Or I could use a data.table tablefreqs like this one:
> tablefreqs
context x0 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
1: 0 20 10 10 21 37 2
2: 0 34 40 6 10 1 8
3: 0 52 4 1 2 17 25
4: 0 16 32 25 11 5 10
5: 0 28 2 10 4 21 35
6: 0 22 13 35 12 13 5
7: 0 9 5 43 29 4 10
8: 1 15 21 14 15 14 21
9: 1 27 8 6 5 29 25
10: 1 13 7 5 26 48 0
11: 1 33 3 18 11 13 22
12: 1 12 23 40 11 2 11
13: 1 5 51 2 28 5 9
14: 1 3 1 21 10 63 2
Now I'd like to draw the following line plot (there's a reason why I need line plots and not, say, histograms or bar plots):
The 7 frequency distributions for context 0, with x as x-axis and the frequency as y-axis, all in the same line plot (with some alpha).
The 7 frequency distributions for context 1, again with x as x-axis and the frequency as y-axis, all in the same line plot (with alpha), but displayed upside-down below the plot for context 0.
Ggplot would surely do this very nicely, but it seems to require some acrobatics with data tables:
– If I use the data table tablefreqs it's not clear to me how to plot all its rows having context==0 in the same plot: ggplot seems to only think column-wise, not row-wise. I could use the six values of x as table rows, but then the "context" values would also end up in a row, and I'm not sure I can subset a data table by values in a row, rather than in a column.
– If I use the matrix freqs, I could create a mini-data-table having x as one column and one frequency distribution as another column, input that into ggplot+geom_line, then go over all 7 frequency distributions in a for-loop maybe. Not clear to me how to tell ggplot to keep the previous plots in this case. Then another for-loop over the two "contexts".
I'd be grateful for suggestions on how to approach this problem in particular, and more generally on what objects to choose for storing this kind of data: matrices? data tables, maybe with a different structure than shown here? some other formats?
I would suggest to familiarize yourself with the concept of what is known as Tidy Data, which are principles for data handling and storage that are adopted by ggplot2 and a number of other packages.
You are free to use a matrix or list of matrices to store your data; however, you can certainly store the data as you describe it (and as I understand it) in a data frame or single table following the following convention of columns:
context | sample | x | freq
I'll show you how I would convert the tablefreqs dataset you shared with us into that format, then how I would go about creating a plot as you are describing it in your question. I'm assuming in this case you only have the two values for context, although you allude to there being more. I'm going to try to interpret correctly what you stated in your question.
Create the Tidy Data frame
Your data frame as shown contains columns x1 through x5 that have values for x spread across more than one column, when you really need these to be converted in the format shown above. This is called "gathering" your data, and you can do that with tidyr::gather().
First, I also need to replicate the naming of your samples according to the matrix dataset, so I'll do that and gather your data:
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)
# create the sample names
tablefreqs$sample <- rep(paste0('sample',1:7), 2)
# gather the columns together
df <- tablefreqs %>%
gather(key='x', value='freq', -c(context, sample))
Note that in the gather() function, we have to specify to leave alone the two columns df$context and df$sample, as they are not part of the gathering effort. But now we are left with df$x containing character vectors. We can't plot that, because we want the to be in the form of a number (at least... I'm assuming you do). For that, we'll convert using:
df$x <- as.numeric(gsub("[^[:digit:].]", "", df$x))
That extracts the number from each value in df$x and represents it as a number, not a character. We have the opposite issue with df$context, which is actually a discrete factor, and we should represent it as such in order to make plotting a bit easier:
df$context <- factor(df$context)
Create the Plot
Now we're ready to create the plot. From your description, I may not have this perfectly right, but it seems that you want a plot containing both context = 1 and context = 0, and when context = 1 the data should be "upside down". By that, I'm assuming you are talking about plotting df$freq when df$context == 0 and -df$freq when df$context == 1. We could do that using some fancy logic in the ggplot() call, but I find it's easier just to create a new column in your dataset to represent what we will be plotting on the y axis. We'll call this column df$freq_adj and use that for plotting:
df$freq_adj <- ifelse(df$context==1, -df$freq, df$freq)
Then we create the plot. I'll explain a bit below the result:
ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=freq_adj)) +
geom_line(
aes(color=context, linetype=sample)
) +
geom_hline(yintercept=0, color='gray50') +
scale_x_continuous(expand=expansion(mult=0)) +
theme_bw()
Without some clearer description or picture of what you were looking to do, I took some liberties here. I used color to discriminate between the two values for context, and I'm using linetype to discriminate the different samples. I also added a line at 0, since it seemed appropriate to do so here, and the scale_x_continuous() command is removing the extra white space that is put in place at the extreme ends of the data.
An alternative that is maybe closer to your description would be to physically have a separation between the two plots, and represent context = 1 as a physically separate plot compared to context = 0, with one over top of the other.
Here's the code and plot:
ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=freq_adj)) +
geom_line(aes(group=sample), alpha=0.3) +
facet_grid(context ~ ., scales='free_y') +
scale_x_continuous(expand=expansion(mult=0)) +
theme_bw()
There the use of aes(group=sample) is quite important, since I want all the lines for each sample to be the same (alpha setting and color), yet ggplot2 needs to know that the connections between the points should be based on "sample". This is done using the group= aesthetic. The scales='free_y' argument on facet_grid() allows the y axis scale to shrink and fit the data according to each facet.
I have a dataset of Ages for the customer and I wanted to make a frequency distribution by 9 years of a gap of age.
Ages=c(83,51,66,61,82,65,54,56,92,60,65,87,68,64,51,
70,75,66,74,68,44,55,78,69,98,67,82,77,79,62,38,88,76,99,
84,47,60,42,66,74,91,71,83,80,68,65,51,56,73,55)
My desired outcome would be similar to below-shared table, variable names can be differed(as you wish)
Could I use binCounts code into it ? if yes could you help me out using the code as not sure of bx and idxs in this code?
binCounts(x, idxs = NULL, bx, right = FALSE) ??
Age Count
38-46 3
47-55 7
56-64 7
65-73 14
74-82 10
83-91 6
92-100 3
Much Appreciated!
I don't know about the binCounts or even the package it is in but i have a bare r function:
data.frame(table(cut(Ages,0:7*9+37)))
Var1 Freq
1 (37,46] 3
2 (46,55] 7
3 (55,64] 7
4 (64,73] 14
5 (73,82] 10
6 (82,91] 6
7 (91,100] 3
To exactly duplicate your results:
lowerlimit=c(37,46,55,64,73,82,91,101)
Labels=paste(head(lowerlimit,-1)+1,lowerlimit[-1],sep="-")#I add one to have 38 47 etc
group=cut(Ages,lowerlimit,Labels)#Determine which group the ages belong to
tab=table(group)#Form a frequency table
as.data.frame(tab)# transform the table into a dataframe
group Freq
1 38-46 3
2 47-55 7
3 56-64 7
4 65-73 14
5 74-82 10
6 83-91 6
7 92-100 3
All this can be combined as:
data.frame(table(cut(Ages,s<-0:7*9+37,paste(head(s+1,-1),s[-1],sep="-"))))
I've got a mess of data and am trying to efficiently wrangle it into shape. Here's a simplified short sample of the general format of my data.frame right now. The main difference is that I have a few more data labels like Label1 for my sampling units - each has a set of data similar to the data.frame I'm including but in my situation they are all in the same data.frame. I don't think that will complicate the reformatting so I've just included the single sampling unit of mock data here. StatsType levels Ave, Max, and Min are effectively nested within MeasureType.
tastycheez<-data.frame(
Day=rep((1:3),9),
StatsType=rep(c(rep("Ave",3),rep("Max",3),rep("Min",3)),3),
MeasureType=rep(c("Temp","H2O","Tastiness"),each=9),
Data_values=1:27,
Label1=rep("SamplingU1",27))
Ultimately, I would like a data frame where for each sampling unit and each Day there are columns holding the Data_values for my categories, like this:
Day Label1 Ave.Temp Ave.H2O Ave.Tastiness Max.Temp ...
1 SamplingU1 1 10 19 4 ...
2 SamplingU1 2 11 20 5 ...
I think some combination of functions from reshape,dplyr,tidyr, and/or data.table could do the job but I can't figure out how to code it. Here's what I've tried:
First, I spread the tastycheez (yum!), and that got me partway:
test<-spread(tastycheez,StatsType,Data_values)
Now I'm trying to spread it again or to cast, but with no luck:
test2<-spread(test,MeasureType,(Ave,Max,Min))
test2 <- recast(Day ~ MeasureType+c(Ave,Max,Min), data=test)
(I also tried melting the tastycheez but the results were a sticky, gooey mess and my tongue got burnt. that doesn't seem to be the right function for this.)
If you hate my puns please excuse them, I really can't figure this out!
Here are a couple related questions:
Combining two subgroups of data in the same dataframe
How can I spread repeated measures of multiple variables into wide format?
reshape2 You could use dcast from reshape2:
library(reshape2)
dcast(tastycheez,
Day + Label1 ~ paste(StatsType, MeasureType, sep="."),
value.var = "Data_values")
which gives
Day Label1 Ave.H2O Ave.Tastiness Ave.Temp Max.H2O Max.Tastiness Max.Temp Min.H2O Min.Tastiness Min.Temp
1 1 SamplingU1 10 19 1 13 22 4 16 25 7
2 2 SamplingU1 11 20 2 14 23 5 17 26 8
3 3 SamplingU1 12 21 3 15 24 6 18 27 9
tidyr Stealing #DavidArenburg's comment, here's the tidyr way:
library(tidyr)
tastycheez %>%
unite(temp, StatsType, MeasureType, sep = ".") %>%
spread(temp, Data_values)
which gives
Day Label1 Ave.H2O Ave.Tastiness Ave.Temp Max.H2O Max.Tastiness Max.Temp Min.H2O Min.Tastiness Min.Temp
1 1 SamplingU1 10 19 1 13 22 4 16 25 7
2 2 SamplingU1 11 20 2 14 23 5 17 26 8
3 3 SamplingU1 12 21 3 15 24 6 18 27 9
I'm doing some cluster analysis on the MLTobs from the LifeTables package and have come across a tricky problem with the Year variable in the mlt.mx.info dataframe. Year contains the period that the life table was taken, in intervals. Here's a table of the data:
1751-1754 1755-1759 1760-1764 1765-1769 1770-1774 1775-1779 1780-1784 1785-1789 1790-1794
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1795-1799 1800-1804 1805-1809 1810-1814 1815-1819 1816-1819 1820-1824 1825-1829 1830-1834
1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3
1835-1839 1838-1839 1840-1844 1841-1844 1845-1849 1846-1849 1850-1854 1855-1859 1860-1864
4 1 5 3 8 1 10 11 11
1865-1869 1870-1874 1872-1874 1875-1879 1876-1879 1878-1879 1880-1884 1885-1889 1890-1894
11 11 1 12 2 1 15 15 15
1895-1899 1900-1904 1905-1909 1908-1909 1910-1914 1915-1919 1920-1924 1921-1924 1922-1924
15 15 15 1 16 16 16 2 1
1925-1929 1930-1934 1933-1934 1935-1939 1937-1939 1940-1944 1945-1949 1947-1949 1948-1949
19 19 1 20 1 22 22 3 1
1950-1954 1955-1959 1956-1959 1958-1959 1960-1964 1965-1969 1970-1974 1975-1979 1980-1984
30 30 2 1 40 40 41 41 41
1983-1984 1985-1989 1990-1994 1991-1994 1992-1994 1995-1999 2000-2003 2000-2004 2005-2006
1 42 42 1 1 44 3 41 22
2005-2007
14
As you can see, some of the intervals sit within other intervals. Thankfully none of them overlap. I want to simplify the intervals so intervals such as 1992-1994 and 1991-1994 all go into 1990-1994.
An idea might be to get the modulo of each interval and sort them into their new intervals that way but I'm unsure how to do this with the interval data type. If anyone has any ideas I'd really appreciate the help. Ultimately I want to create a histogram or barplot to illustrate the nicely.
If I understand your problem, you'll want something like this:
bottom <- seq(1750, 2010, 5)
library(dplyr)
new_df <- mlt.mx.info %>%
arrange(Year) %>%
mutate(year2 = as.numeric(substr(Year, 6, 9))) %>%
mutate(new_year = paste0(bottom[findInterval(year2, bottom)], "-",(bottom[findInterval(year2, bottom) + 1] - 1)))
View(new_df)
So what this does, it creates bins, and outputs a new column (new_year) that is the bottom of the bin. So everything from 1750-1754 will correspond to a new value of 1750-1754 (in string form; the original is an integer type, not sure how to fix that). Does this do what you want? Double check the results, but it looks right to me.
I have just begun using R and have gone through multiple books and sources and they get more and more complex yet I still am unable to find a solution to what I think should be quite a basic process.
I have data with 3 columns as shown: (I am really simplifying everything to try and get a really clear answer which can applied to multiple situations)
min max value
1 5 23
8 15 9
33 35 30
I would like to plot this data on a graph.
by this data I intend that every value between 1 and 5 for example on the x axis is equal to 23 on the y axis.
I have tried several things including assigning each column to vectors a , b , and c respectively.
generating the correct number of values with:
y <- rep( c, (a-b+1))
which works as expected
then the problem occurs with getting the appropriate x values, I tried:
x <- (a:b)
but because of the way R functions it only applies to the first variables.
Now I can make this work by manually typing everything in like:
x <- c(1:5, 8:15, 33:35)
but I really need an automated way to do this because I am working with huge datasets of this structure.
I have seen some other people seem to have similar issues, however the underlying principle always seem to be convoluted with vast datasets and entire codes in questions so I have been unable to get to a good solution to this problem.
If anyone with a little more experience could clear up this issue I would be hugely grateful!
dat <- read.table(text=
"min max value
1 5 23
8 15 9
33 35 30",
header=TRUE)
I'm still not quite sure what you mean, but maybe:
newdat <- with(dat,data.frame(x=c(min,max),y=rep(value,2)))
newdat <- plyr::arrange(newdat,x)
plot(y~x,type="s",data=newdat)
It's not clear what you want to do between 5 and 8, 15 and 33 ... another possibility is to plot each bit as a separate segment:
plot(max~value,data=dat,xlim=range(c(dat$min,dat$max)),
type="n")
apply(dat,1,function(x) segments(x[1],x[3],x[2],x[3]))
How about this:
# your data.frame
df<-data.frame(min=c(1,8,33),max=c(5,15,35),value=c(23,9,30))
x<-unlist(apply(df,1,function(x)x[1]:x[2]))
y<-unlist(apply(df,1,function(x)rep(x[3],x[2]-x[1]+1)))
plotdata<-data.frame(x=x,y=y)
plotdata
x y
1 1 23
2 2 23
3 3 23
4 4 23
5 5 23
6 8 9
7 9 9
8 10 9
9 11 9
10 12 9
11 13 9
12 14 9
13 15 9
14 33 30
15 34 30
16 35 30
Something like this?
a <- c(c(1:5), c(8:15), c(33:35))
b <- c(rep(23,5), rep(9,8), rep(30,3))
plot(a,b, type="l")