[R] Represent point size according to frequency

[Jose Iparraguirre]

Shortly ago I did something similar to what you intend to. 

The data frame was called 'fore'. There were eight different variables and I wanted to plot each one by column, and depict the frequencies in terms of the size of the dots. The problem I ran into is that the plots got extremely big for some particular cases with high frequencies -fortunately, in my case, it didn't matter whether I had a value of 4 or more: I could depict them all with the same size. Hence, I plotted frequency values 1, 2, 3, and 4.

There may be more elegant ways, but this was my rough and ready attempt:

> op <- par(mar=c(3,4,1,1))
> plot(c(1:8),col="white",
+ ylim=c(min(na.omit(fore)),max(na.omit(fore))),xaxt="n", xlab="",ylab="%")
> grid()

> for (i in 1:ncol(fore)){
+ cex.dots=ifelse(as.numeric(table(fore[,i]))>4,4,as.numeric(table(fore[,i])))
+ points(x=rep(i,length(na.omit(fore[,i]))),
+ y=na.omit(fore[,i]),pch=19, cex=cex.dots)
+ }

> title, etc...
> par(op)


Forgive me for the shameless plugging, but you can see the final result on page 44, Figure 39, of Age UK's Chief Economist's Report (http://www.ageuk.org.uk/Documents/EN-GB/For-professionals/Research/Age%20UK%20Chief%20Economist%20Report%20Autumn%202012.pdf)

Hope this helps!

José


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Subject: [R] Represent point size according to frequency

Hello! I would like to make a scatterplot of my data, but the problem is that
several points have the same x and y values and are represented as only one
point.  I wonder if there is a way to represent the data points, but with
point size representing the frequency of the depicted x-y value? 
Thank you!



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