[R-SIG-Finance] plotting market cap heatmap
Brian G. Peterson
brian at braverock.com
Mon Nov 2 19:04:39 CET 2009
The only heatmap code I've used in R is based on correlations, usually
paired with a dendogram. I don't know if that code could be adapted.
Maybe a question for r-help since this seems a bit more generally
related to plotting things in R than the specifics of what you're plotting?
Regards,
- Brian
Khanh Nguyen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Let say I have this data frame.
>
>
>> tickers <- toupper(letters[1:5])
>> market.cap <- c(100, 60, 700, 1500, 450)
>> change <- c(0.02, 0.004, 0.0012, 0.001, 0.030
>> data <- data.frame(tickers, market.cap, change)
>> data
>>
> tickers market.cap change
> 1 A 100 0.0200
> 2 B 60 0.0040
> 3 C 700 0.0012
> 4 D 1500 0.0010
> 5 E 450 0.0300
>
> and I'd like to plot a heatmap whose market cap is proportional to the
> size of the cell, similar to http://finviz.com/map.ashx. Could
> somebody please give me a pointer? Thanks.
>
> -k
>
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