GDAtools (version 1.7)

ggadd_corr: Adds a heatmap of under/over-representation of a supplementary variable to a cloud of individuals

Description

Adds a heatmap representing the correlation coefficients to a MCA cloud of individuals, for a numerical supplementary variable or one category of a categorical supplementary variable, using the ggplot2 framework.

Usage

ggadd_corr(p, resmca, var, cat=levels(var)[1], axes=c(1,2),
xbins=20, ybins=20, min.n=1, pal="RdYlBu", limits=NULL, legend="right")

Arguments

p

ggplot object with the cloud of variables

resmca

object of class MCA, speMCA, csMCA, stMCA or multiMCA

var

factor or numerical vector. The supplementary variable used for the heatmap.

cat

character string. numeric vector of indexes of the categories to plot (by default, ellipses are plotted for every categories). Only used if var is a factor.

axes

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

xbins

integer. Number of bins in the x axis. Default is 20.

ybins

integer. Number of bins in the y axis. Default is 20.

min.n

integer. Minimal number of points for a tile to be drawn. By default, every tiles are drawn.

pal

character string. Name of a diverging ColorBrewer palette. Default is "RdYlBu".

limits

numerical vector of length 2. Lower and upper limits of the correlation coefficients for the color scale. Should be centered around 0 for a better view of under/over-representations (for example c(-0.2,0.2)). By default, the maximal absolute value of the correlation coefficients is used.

legend

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

Value

a ggplot object

Details

For each tile of the heatmap, a correlation coefficient is computed between the supplementary variable and the fact of belonging to the tile. This gives a view of the under/over-representation of the supplementary variable according to the position in the cloud of individuals.

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_variables, ggcloud_indiv, ggadd_supvar, ggadd_interaction, ggadd_ellipses, ggadd_density

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Performs a specific MCA on 'Taste' example data set
## ignoring every 'NA' (i.e. 'not available') categories,
## draws the cloud of categories
## and adds a correlation heatmap for Age=50+.
data(Taste)
getindexcat(Taste[,1:11])
mca <- speMCA(Taste[,1:11],excl=c(3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33))
p <- ggcloud_indiv(mca, col='lightgrey')
ggadd_corr(p, mca, var=Taste$Age, cat="50+", xbins=10, ybins=10)
# }