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Scatter Plot

Source: R/scatterplot.R
ScatterPlot.Rd

Scatter Plot

Usage

ScatterPlot(
  data,
  x,
  y,
  size_by = 2,
  size_name = NULL,
  color_by = NULL,
  color_name = NULL,
  color_reverse = FALSE,
  split_by = NULL,
  split_by_sep = "_",
  shape = 21,
  alpha = ifelse(shape %in% 21:25, 0.65, 1),
  border_color = "black",
  theme = "theme_this",
  theme_args = list(),
  palette = ifelse(!is.null(color_by) && !is.numeric(data[[color_by]]), "Paired",
    "Spectral"),
  palcolor = NULL,
  facet_by = NULL,
  facet_scales = "fixed",
  facet_ncol = NULL,
  facet_nrow = NULL,
  facet_byrow = TRUE,
  aspect.ratio = 1,
  legend.position = "right",
  legend.direction = "vertical",
  title = NULL,
  subtitle = NULL,
  xlab = NULL,
  ylab = NULL,
  combine = TRUE,
  nrow = NULL,
  ncol = NULL,
  byrow = TRUE,
  seed = 8525,
  ...
)

Arguments

data

A data frame.

x

A character string specifying the column name of the data frame to plot for the x-axis.

y

A character string specifying the column name of the data frame to plot for the y-axis.

size_by

Which column to use as the size of the dots. It must be a numeric column. Or it can be a numeric value to specify the size of the dots.

size_name

A character vector specifying the name for the size legend.

color_by

Which column to use as the color of the dots. It could be a numeric column or a factor/character column. For shapes 21-25, the color is applied to the fill color.

color_name

A character vector specifying the name for the color legend.

color_reverse

A logical value indicating whether to reverse the color direction. Default is FALSE.

split_by

The column(s) to split data by and plot separately.

split_by_sep

The separator for multiple split_by columns. See split_by

shape

A numeric value specifying the shape of the points. Default is 21.

alpha

A numeric value specifying the transparency of the plot.

border_color

A character vector specifying the color for the border of the points. Or TRUE to use the fill color as the border color.

theme

A character string or a theme class (i.e. ggplot2::theme_classic) specifying the theme to use. Default is "theme_this".

theme_args

A list of arguments to pass to the theme function.

palette

A character string specifying the palette to use.

palcolor

A character string specifying the color to use in the palette.

facet_by

A character string specifying the column name of the data frame to facet the plot. Otherwise, the data will be split by split_by and generate multiple plots and combine them into one using patchwork::wrap_plots

facet_scales

Whether to scale the axes of facets. Default is "fixed" Other options are "free", "free_x", "free_y". See ggplot2::facet_wrap

facet_ncol

A numeric value specifying the number of columns in the facet. When facet_by is a single column and facet_wrap is used.

facet_nrow

A numeric value specifying the number of rows in the facet. When facet_by is a single column and facet_wrap is used.

facet_byrow

A logical value indicating whether to fill the plots by row. Default is TRUE.

aspect.ratio

A numeric value specifying the aspect ratio of the plot.

legend.position

A character string specifying the position of the legend. if waiver(), for single groups, the legend will be "none", otherwise "right".

legend.direction

A character string specifying the direction of the legend.

title

A character string specifying the title of the plot. A function can be used to generate the title based on the default title. This is useful when split_by is used and the title needs to be dynamic.

subtitle

A character string specifying the subtitle of the plot.

xlab

A character string specifying the x-axis label.

ylab

A character string specifying the y-axis label.

combine

Whether to combine the plots into one when facet is FALSE. Default is TRUE.

nrow

A numeric value specifying the number of rows in the facet.

ncol

A numeric value specifying the number of columns in the facet.

byrow

A logical value indicating whether to fill the plots by row.

seed

The random seed to use. Default is 8525.

...

Additional arguments.

Value

A ggplot object or wrap_plots object or a list of ggplot objects

Examples

set.seed(8525)

data <- data.frame(
   x = rnorm(20),
   y = rnorm(20),
   w = abs(rnorm(20)),
   t = sample(c("A", "B"), 20, replace = TRUE)
)
ScatterPlot(data, x = "x", y = "y")


# size_by is a numeric column
ScatterPlot(data, x = "x", y = "y", size_by = "w")


# color_by is a numeric column
ScatterPlot(data, x = "x", y = "y", color_by = "w")


# color_by is a factor/character column and set a border_color
ScatterPlot(data, x = "x", y = "y", size_by = "w", color_by = "t",
 border_color = "red")


# Same border_color as the fill color
ScatterPlot(data, x = "x", y = "y", size_by = "w", color_by = "t",
 border_color = TRUE)


# Shape doesn't have fill color
ScatterPlot(data, x = "x", y = "y", size_by = "w", color_by = "t",
 shape = 1, palette = "Set1")