[R] plain shading (not residuals) in mosaic plot

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 17:36:52 CEST 2006


If you look at ?mosaic the ... argument says it gets passed to strucplot and
looking at ?strucplot we see it accepts a gp= arg so try this (same
as your plus gp= arg):

cols <- c(grey(0.8),grey(0.4))
mosaic(allmorph, direction = "v", pop = FALSE, gp = list(col = cols))

On 7/19/06, Kie Zuraw <kie at ucla.edu> wrote:
> Hello. I've been using R for a couple of months and enjoying it a lot.
> This is my first post to R-help.
>
> I'm using the vcd package to make mosaic plots with labels on the tiles
> indicating the number of items in each cell.
>
> For example, I've made this plot:
>
>
> > allmorph<-structure(c(10, 26, 17, 100, 70, 97, 253, 430, 185, 177,
> > 25, 1), .Dim = as.integer(c(6, 2)), .Dimnames =
> > structure(list(Stem.initial.obstruent = c("p", "t,s",
> > "k","b","d","g"),Subst.behavior=c("unsubstituted","substituted")),
> > .Names = c("Stem-initial obstruent","Behavior according to
> > dictionary")), class = "table")
> > mosaic(allmorph,direction="v",pop=FALSE)
> > labeling_cells(text=allmorphs,margin=0)(allmorph)
>
>
> So far so good. What I can't figure out how to do--after searching
> through the vcd documentation
> (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/packages/vcd.pdf), Googling, and
> checking the r-help archive--is how to shade the tiles according to
> their values for the variables rather than to reflect residuals. That
> is, I want all the tiles at the bottom, whose value for the x-axis
> variable is "substituted", to be dark grey, and those at the top, in
> the "unsubstituted" category, to be light grey.
>
> I know how to do it with mosaicplot():
>
> > mosaicplot(morphs3,color=c(grey(0.8),grey(0.4)))
>
> ...but this doesn't work with mosaic(): the command
> "mosaic(morphs3,color=c(grey(0.8),grey(0.4)))" yields a plot with all
> tiles the same color. And conversely, I can't find a way to use
> mosaicplot() and add numeric labels to the tiles--without much hope of
> success, I tried combining mosaicplot() with labeling_cells(), but,
> unsurprisingly, it didn't work:
>
> > mosaicplot(morphs3,color=c(grey(0.8),grey(0.4)),pop=FALSE)
> Warning message:
> extra argument(s) 'pop' will be disregarded in:
> mosaicplot.default(morphs3, color = c(grey(0.8), grey(0.4)),
> > labeling_cells(text=morphs3,margin=0)(morphs3)
> Error in downViewport.vpPath(vpPathDirect(name), strict, recording =
> recording) :        Viewport 'cell:Stem-initial obstruent=p,Behavior
> according to dictionary=unsubstituted' was not found
>
>
> Does anyone know how to get both the shading I want and the labels I
> want, whether with mosaic(), with mosaicplot(), or in some other way?
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> -Kie Zuraw
>
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