geom_quasirandom
Points, jittered to reduce overplotting using the vipor package
The quasirandom geom is a convenient means to offset points within categories to reduce overplotting. Uses the vipor package
Usage
geom_quasirandom(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, width = NULL, varwidth = FALSE, bandwidth = 0.5, nbins = NULL, method = "quasirandom", groupOnX = NULL, dodge.width = 0, stat = "identity", position = "quasirandom", na.rm = FALSE, show.legend = NA, inherit.aes = TRUE, ...)
Arguments
- mapping
- Set of aesthetic mappings created by
aes
oraes_
. If specified andinherit.aes = TRUE
(the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of the plot. You must supplymapping
if there is no plot mapping. - data
- The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three
options:
If
NULL
, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the call toggplot
.A
data.frame
, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be fortified to produce a data frame. Seefortify
for which variables will be created.A
function
will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return value must be adata.frame.
, and will be used as the layer data. - width
- the maximum amount of spread (default: 0.4)
- varwidth
- vary the width by the relative size of each group
- bandwidth
- the bandwidth adjustment to use when calculating density Smaller numbers (< 1) produce a tighter "fit". (default: 0.5)
- nbins
- the number of bins used when calculating density (has little effect with quasirandom/random distribution)
- method
- the method used for distributing points (quasirandom, pseudorandom, smiley or frowney)
- groupOnX
- should jitter be added to the x axis if TRUE or y axis if FALSE (the default NULL causes the function to guess which axis is the categorical one based on the number of unique entries in each)
- dodge.width
- Amount by which points from different aesthetic groups will be dodged. This requires that one of the aesthetics is a factor.
- stat
- The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, as a string.
- position
- Position adjustment, either as a string, or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
- na.rm
- If
FALSE
(the default), removes missing values with a warning. IfTRUE
silently removes missing values. - show.legend
- logical. Should this layer be included in the legends?
NA
, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped.FALSE
never includes, andTRUE
always includes. - inherit.aes
- If
FALSE
, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them. This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and shouldn't inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g.borders
. - ...
- other arguments passed on to
layer
. These are often aesthetics, used to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, likecolor = "red"
orsize = 3
. They may also be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
Aesthetics
geom_point
understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):
-
x
-
y
-
alpha
-
colour
-
fill
-
shape
-
size
-
stroke
See Also
offsetX
how spacing is determined,
geom_point
for regular, unjittered points,
geom_jitter
for jittered points,
geom_boxplot
for another way of looking at the conditional
distribution of a variable
Examples
ggplot2::qplot(class, hwy, data = ggplot2::mpg, geom='quasirandom')
# Generate fake data
distro <- data.frame(
'variable'=rep(c('runif','rnorm'),each=100),
'value'=c(runif(100, min=-3, max=3), rnorm(100))
)
ggplot2::qplot(variable, value, data = distro, geom = 'quasirandom')
ggplot2::qplot(variable, value, data = distro) + geom_quasirandom(width=0.1)