GDAtools (version 1.5)

ggcloud_variables: Plots MCA cloud of variables

Description

Plots a Multiple Correspondence Analysis cloud of variables, using ggplots functions.

Usage

ggcloud_variables(resmca, axes=c(1,2), points='all', shapes=TRUE,
prop=NULL, textsize=3, shapesize=3, palette=NULL, alpha=1,
segment.alpha=0.5, vlab=TRUE, sep='.', legend='right')

Arguments

resmca

object of class 'MCA', 'speMCA' or 'csMCA'.

axes

numeric vector of length 2, specifying the components (axes) to plot. Default is c(1,2).

points

character string. If 'all' all categories are plotted (default); if 'besth' only those who contribute most to horizontal axis are plotted; if 'bestv' only those who contribute most to vertical axis are plotted; if 'best' only those who contribute most to horizontal or vertical axis are plotted.

shapes

Logical. Should shapes be plotted for categories (in addition to labels) ? Default is TRUE.

prop

If NULL, the size of the labels (if shapes=FALSE) or the shapes (if shapes=TRUE) is constant. If 'n', the size is proportional the the weights of categories; if 'ctr1', the size is proportional to the contributions of the categories on the first dimension of the plot; if 'ctr2', the size is proportional to the contributions of the categories on the second dimension of the plot; if 'ctr.cloud', the size is proportional to the total contributions of the categories on the whole cloud; if 'cos1', the size is proportional to the cosines of the categories on the first dimension of the plot; if 'cos2', the size is proportional to the cosines of the categories on the second dimension of the plot; if 'cos12', the size is proportional to the total cosines of the categories on the two dimensions of the plot.

textsize

Size of the labels of categories if shapes=TRUE, or if shapes=FALSE and prop=NULL. Default is 3.

shapesize

Size if the shapes of categories if shapes=TRUE and prop=FALSE. Default is 3.

palette

Colors for the shapes and labels of the categories, differentiated by variable. Can be the name of a palette from the RcolorBrewer package, 'bw' for a black and white palette (uses scale_color_grey()), a character vector of colors for a custom palette, or the name of a color for a single color. If NULL (default), the default palette of ggplot2 is used..

alpha

Transparency of the shapes and labels of categories. Default is 1.

segment.alpha

Transparency of the line segment beside labels of categories. Default is 0.5.

vlab

Logical. Should the variable names be used as a prefix for the labels of the categories. Default is TRUE.

sep

Character string used as a separator if vlab=TRUE.

legend

the position of legends ("none", "left", "right", "bottom", "top", or two-element numeric vector). Default is right.

Value

a ggplot object

References

Le Roux B. and Rouanet H., Multiple Correspondence Analysis, SAGE, Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Volume 163, CA:Thousand Oaks (2010).

Le Roux B. and Rouanet H., Geometric Data Analysis: From Correspondence Analysis to Stuctured Data Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (June 2004).

See Also

ggcloud_indiv, ggadd_supvar, ggadd_ellipses, ggadd_interaction

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
## Performs a specific MCA on 'Music' example data set
## ignoring every 'NA' (i.e. 'not available') categories,
## and then draws the cloud of categories.
data(Music)
getindexcat(Music[,1:5])
mca <- speMCA(Music[,1:5],excl=c(3,6,9,12,15))
ggcloud_variables(mca)
ggcloud_variables(mca, points='best', prop='n', palette='Set2')
# }

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