[R] Plotting in R
@steii m@iii@g oii gm@ii@com
@steii m@iii@g oii gm@ii@com
Fri Jul 12 03:55:55 CEST 2019
Thanks Jim, that worked.
> I expected that the axis labels would be crowded so I used the plotrix library to stagger the x-axis labels. Hope this solves your problem.
I liked how that showed, not overlapping on each other. I wasn't aware of the plotrix library.
In my code I was using plot_ly for visualization, because it looked nicer compared to the simple plot() function, and I have the chart in a Shiny dashboard (RMD file).
I found in the meantime today some code example for plot_ly and using the same data it looks like this:
sydf<-read.table(text="year1 monthday rate
1993 05-01 0.608
1994 06-01 0.622
1996 07-01 0.623
1998 08-01 0.647
2000 09-01 0.646
2002 10-01 0.625
2004 11-01 0.628
2006 12-01 0.685
2008 01-01 0.679
2010 02-01 0.595
2012 03-01 0.567
2014 04-01 0.599
2016 05-01 0.642
2018 06-01 0.685",
header=TRUE,
stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
library(plotly)
plot_ly(sydf,
x = ~year1,
y = ~rate,
type = 'scatter', mode = 'lines') %>%
layout(
xaxis = list(
ticktext = sydf$monthday,
tickvals = sydf$year1,
tickmode = "array",
tickangle = 270
))
This is where I found about the parameters:
https://plot.ly/r/tick-formatting/
Now my other challenge is that with my data I have a lot more values on the x axis, and they overlap even when turned vertically. I guess there must be a way of taking a number of values evenly from the list of x axis lables, and use that for the "ticktext" parameter.
I thought it must be some variation of the seq(from, to, by= ). Can I use that with a list of strings?
Thanks,
Steven
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 7:46 PM
To: nstefi using gmail.com; r-help mailing list <r-help using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] Plotting in R
Hi Steven,
It is pretty easy, but there are one or two things to watch for.
First, don't use a hyphen in a field name unless you enclose it in single quotes when extracting it. I've just removed the hyphen in this
example:
sydf<-read.table(text="year1 monthday rate
1993 05-01 0.608
1994 06-01 0.622
1996 07-01 0.623
1998 08-01 0.647
2000 09-01 0.646
2002 10-01 0.625
2004 11-01 0.628
2006 12-01 0.685
2008 01-01 0.679
2010 02-01 0.595
2012 03-01 0.567
2014 04-01 0.599
2016 05-01 0.642
2018 06-01 0.685",
header=TRUE,
stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
sydf$date<-as.Date(paste(sydf$year1,sydf$monthday),"%Y %m-%d")
library(plotrix)
par(mar=c(6,4,4,2))
plot(sydf$date,sydf$rate,type="b",xaxt="n")
staxlab(1,at=sydf$date,labels=sydf$monthday)
Note that I have also added the stringsAsFactors argument to prevent monthdate being read as a factor. I expected that the axis labels would be crowded so I used the plotrix library to stagger the x-axis labels. Hope this solves your problem.
Jim
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 1:59 AM <nstefi using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your email.
> My question was: how to change the x axis labels without changing the chart.
> Or is that not possible?
> Using your example, I added another column:
> sydf<-read.table(text="year1 month-day rate
> 1993 05-01 0.608
> 1994 06-01 0.622
> 1996 07-01 0.623
> 1998 08-01 0.647
> 2000 09-01 0.646
> 2002 10-01 0.625
> 2004 11-01 0.628
> 2006 12-01 0.685
> 2008 01-01 0.679
> 2010 02-01 0.595
> 2012 03-01 0.567
> 2014 04-01 0.599
> 2016 05-01 0.642
> 2018 06-01 0.685",
> header=TRUE)
>
> How can I show the column "month-day" as labels on the x axis, but
> still have the plot showing the chart as rate based on year?
> I tried this:
> plot(sydf$year,sydf$rate,type="b",
> xlab="month-day",ylab="Rate")
>
> but this only changes the title of the x axis to "month-day". I want
> the values on the x axis to show 05-01 06-01, etc.
> Is that possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Steven
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Jim Lemon
> Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2019 2:59 AM
> To: Steven Yen <styen using ntu.edu.tw>; r-help mailing list
> <r-help using r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] Plotting in R
>
> Hi Steven,
> A basic plot can be displayed like this:
>
> sydf<-read.table(text="year rate
> 1993 0.608
> 1994 0.622
> 1996 0.623
> 1998 0.647
> 2000 0.646
> 2002 0.625
> 2004 0.628
> 2006 0.685
> 2008 0.679
> 2010 0.595
> 2012 0.567
> 2014 0.599
> 2016 0.642
> 2018 0.685",
> header=TRUE)
> plot(sydf$year,sydf$rate,type="b",
> xlab="Year",ylab="Rate")
>
> When you add more years and rates to the data frame, the axes will
> change to include the years and rates outside the ones in your
> example. As some have noted, this is a very basic question.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 11:33 PM Steven Yen <styen using ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
> >
> > I have a data frame containing two variables: year and rate (shown below).
> > Which function can I use to plot rate (y-axis) against year (x-axis)?
> > There will be more columns of rate later on.
> > Thank you.
> >
> > year rate 1 1993 0.608 2 1994 0.622 3 1996 0.623 4 1998 0.647 5 2000
> > 0.646 6 2002 0.625 7 2004 0.628 8 2006 0.685 9 2008 0.679 10 2010
> > 0.595
> > 11 2012 0.567 12 2014 0.599 13 2016 0.642 14 2018 0.685
> >
> >
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