R Data Visualization Cookbook

R Data Visualization Cookbook

Overview of this book

If you are a data journalist, academician, student or freelance designer who wants to learn about data visualization, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of R programming is expected.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Free Chapter

1. A Simple Guide to R

Installing packages and getting help in R

Data types in R

Special values in R

Matrices in R

Editing a matrix in R

Data frames in R

Editing a data frame in R

Importing data in R

Exporting data in R

Writing a function in R

Writing if else statements in R

Basic loops in R

Nested loops in R

The apply, lapply, sapply, and tapply functions

Using par to beautify a plot in R

Saving plots

2. Basic and Interactive Plots

Introduction

Introducing a scatter plot

Scatter plots with texts, labels, and lines

Connecting points in a scatter plot

Generating an interactive scatter plot

A simple bar plot

An interactive bar plot

A simple line plot

Line plot to tell an effective story

Generating an interactive Gantt/timeline chart in R

Merging histograms

Making an interactive bubble plot

Constructing a waterfall plot in R

3. Heat Maps and Dendrograms

Introduction

Constructing a simple dendrogram

Creating dendrograms with colors and labels

Creating a heat map

Generating a heat map with customized colors

Generating an integrated dendrogram and a heat map

Creating a three-dimensional heat map and a stereo map

Constructing a tree map in R

4. Maps

Introduction

Introducing regional maps

Introducing choropleth maps

A guide to contour maps

Constructing maps with bubbles

Integrating text with maps

Introducing shapefiles

Creating cartograms

5. The Pie Chart and Its Alternatives

Introduction

Generating a simple pie chart

Constructing pie charts with labels

Creating donut plots and interactive plots

Generating a slope chart

Constructing a fan plot

6. Adding the Third Dimension

Introduction

Constructing a 3D scatter plot

Generating a 3D scatter plot with text

A simple 3D pie chart

A simple 3D histogram

Generating a 3D contour plot

Integrating a 3D contour and a surface plot

Animating a 3D surface plot

7. Data in Higher Dimensions

Introduction

Constructing a sunflower plot

Creating a hexbin plot

Generating interactive calendar maps

Creating Chernoff faces in R

Constructing a coxcomb plot in R

Constructing network plots

Constructing a radial plot

Generating a very basic pyramid plot

8. Visualizing Continuous Data

Introduction

Generating a candlestick plot

Generating interactive candlestick plots

Generating a decomposed time series

Plotting a regression line

Constructing a box and whiskers plot

Generating a violin plot

Generating a quantile-quantile plot (QQ plot)

Generating a density plot

Generating a simple correlation plot

9. Visualizing Text and XKCD-style Plots

Introduction

Generating a word cloud

Constructing a word cloud from a document

Generating a comparison cloud

Constructing a correlation plot and a phrase tree

Generating plots with custom fonts

Generating an XKCD-style plot

10. Creating Applications in R

Introduction

Creating animated plots in R

Creating a presentation in R

A basic introduction to API and XML

Constructing a bar plot using XML in R

Creating a very simple shiny app in R

Index

Customer Reviews

5 star

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

A simple 3D pie chart

In Chapter 5, The Pie Chart and its Alternatives, we studied pie charts in great detail. In this recipe, we will focus on generating a 3D pie chart in R using the plotrix package.

Getting ready

In order to generate a 3D pie chart, we will use the plotrix package in R.

How to do it…

In order to plot a 3D pie chart in R, we will first install and load the plotrix package in R using the install.packages()and library() functions respectively:

install.packages("plotrix")
library(plotrix)

We have generated the 3D pie chart using traumatic brain injury data, also used in Chapter 5, The Pie Chart and its Alternatives. Please refer to the recipe Generating a simple pie chart from that chapter to understand the data transformation and further use of paste(). The following lines of code are used to construct our data and the code is explained in detail in chapter 5, The Pie Chart and its Alternatives:

data = c(179718,41370,41914,44280)
pct = (data/sum(data))*100
pct = round(pct,2)
labels...

R Data Visualization Cookbook

R Data Visualization Cookbook

Overview of this book

Related Content you might be interested in

Current Title:

R Data Visualization Cookbook

A simple 3D pie chart

Getting ready

How to do it…