Help:Drawing graphs

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Question

How to draw graphs in Opasnet?

Answer

  • Set graphical par() parameters: [1] [2]

R-tools

In R-tools, you have the functionalities of R available. We recommend that you use the package ggplot2 whenever possible. It is very powerful, and borrowing good ideas from others is easier if we all use the same approach. Of course, it is also possible to use plot' (a kind of basic graph) as well, but the limits come sooner. This is an example code that contains all kinds of examples with comments.

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These are the equal sizes for different graphics settings. A typically good base_size is 24:

  • Opasnet graphics
  • png(width = 1024, height=768) # (in pixels)
  • pdf(width = 14, height=10.5) # (in inches)

rlnorm

Graph for cumulative probability distributions

Size of base font:

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Colours and ordering of bars

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Google charts

This is how you can make fancy Google motion or map charts. See documentation for R package googleVis and Google's help. Note that Google has copyright in its maps, but the license to use them is very flexible and in practice free [3].

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Export a graph to EPS or PDF file

This code only works on your own computer, because you cannot save files when running code in Opasnet. [4] 

# Saving an .eps file
setEPS()
postscript("whatever.eps")
plot(rnorm(100), main="Hey Some Data")
dev.off()

# Saving a .pdf file
pdf("whatever.pdf")
plot(rnorm(100), main="Hey Some Data")
dev.off()

If you are using ggplot2 to generate a figure, then a 

ggsave(file="name.eps", width = 7, height = 7)

will also work. It will save the last ggplot with the width and height you give (in inches).

Cumulative graphs

With ggplot, stat_ecdf() gives an empirical cumulative distribution function that sums up to 1. But if you want to get a cumulative sum of counts (that sum up to the number of observations), you need to do something else. For example, see [5]. 

ggplot(x,aes(x=X,color=A)) +
  stat_bin(data=subset(x,A=="a"),aes(y=cumsum(..count..)),geom="step")+
  stat_bin(data=subset(x,A=="b"),aes(y=cumsum(..count..)),geom="step")+
  stat_bin(data=subset(x,A=="c"),aes(y=cumsum(..count..)),geom="step")

Using positions

ggplot2 Quick Reference: position[6]

Position adjustments are used to adjust the position of each geom. The following position adjustments are available:

  • position_identity - default of most geoms
  • position_jitter - default of geom_jitter
  • position_dodge - default of geom_boxplot
  • position_stack - default of geom_bar==geom_histogram and geom_area
  • position_fill - useful for geom_bar==geom_histogram and geom_area

Setting the Position Adjustment: To set the position adjustment of a geom, use the position parameter of the layer() function: 

layer(geom="point", ..., position="jitter")

Or use the position parameter of the geom_...() function: 

geom_point(..., position="jitter")

Double dots in ggplot

What are double dots eg. ..density.. in ggplot?[7]

Unlike many other languages, in R, the dot is perfectly valid in identifiers. In this case, ..count.. is an identifier. However, there is special code in ggplot2 to detect this pattern, and to strip the dots. It feels unlikely that real code would use identifiers formatted like that, and so this is a neat way to distinguish between defined and calculated aesthetics.

It is used further up above in the map_statistic function. If a calculated aesthetic is present, another data frame (one that contains e.g. the count column) is used for the plot.

The single dot . is just another identifier, defined in the plyr package. As you can see, it is a function.

Maps and GIS-based data

There are several methods to produce maps. These are described on Opasnet map.

GoogleDocs

GoogleDocs is the method of choice for drawing causal diagrams.

  • Make a drawing.
  • Share it with everyone with open editing.
  • Download is in png or svg format.
  • Upload the file to Opasnet and copy a link to the original Google document to the image page.
  • Use like any image.

Sankey diagrams

There is no established approach to Sankey diagrams. A few packages provide with functionalities, but the usebility and user-friendliness has not been tested.

Directed acyclic graphs DAGs

Opasnet server does not plot the default serif family font with igraphs. Therefore, you must give: 'vertex.label.family = "Helvetica"' to prevent an error.

An example code where jygraph is an igraph object. See details from op_fi:Keskipitkän aikavälin ilmastopolitiikan suunnitelma. 

plot(jygraph, 
  vertex.label.cex = 0.8, 
  vertex.size = ifelse(grepl("uuttuja", V(jygraph)$Tyyppi), 20, 10), 
  vertex.color = ifelse(grepl("iistelty", V(jygraph)$Huom), "Red", "SkyBlue2"), 
  vertex.shape = ifelse(grepl("äätös", V(jygraph)$Tyyppi), "square", "circle"),
  vertex.label.family = "Helvetica",
  edge.color = edgeparam$Color[match(E(jygraph)$Relaatio, edgeparam$Relaatio)],
  edge.width = edgeparam$Width[match(E(jygraph)$Relaatio, edgeparam$Relaatio)],
  edge.arrow.size = 0.5,
  layout = layout.fruchterman.reingold
)

Note: if parameter values are factors, ifelse converts them by using as.numeric(), not as.character(). Therefore, it is better to not use factors at all but explicitly convert them in the code.

Other options to show DAGs and RDF data

  • TopBraid Composer: expensive proprietary software and therefore not applicable
  • Protégé: open source ontology system. [9] It is RDF compatible but does not seem very visual.
  • VisualDataWeb [10] It is RDF compatible and looks really fancy. Open source. ←--#: . Must learn more about this. --Jouni (talk) 08:25, 28 October 2016 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)
  • en:Tulip (software) is information visualisation framework for relational data. It is open source. It is efficient for development of end-user applications. Written in C++.
  • en:NetworkX is a Python library for studying graphs and networks. Open source. Suitable for graphs in excess of 10 million nodes and 100 million edges.
  • en:Gephi is an open-source network analysis and visualisation software package written in Java.
  • en:Graphviz open source tool package from AT&T for drawing graphs specified in DOT language.
  • R packages igraph, network, sna, and ndtv can be used. For instuctions, see [11].
  • Tetrad project
  • Dagitty. [12]

Using Unicode symbols in graphs

You can create infograms with symbols by replacing typical shapes with Unicode characters. However, ggplot does not seem to accept characters beyond ca. 64000 where the most interesting pictograms are. I tried showtext for adding new fonts. An example for using showtext with Shiny, using Google fonts.

NOTE! Some of the code worked in Windows, some in Linux. An optimal solution has not been found yet. Probably the Linux cluster is the best way to produce graphs with strange Unicode characters and fonts.

  1. 9728+256: erilaisia symboleita ml perushymiö ja käsiä [13]
  2. 1F3C2... urheilijoita kaavamaisia
  3. 128697+1 miesten ja naisten vessa
  4. Transport and map symbols 1F680 sisältää myös kävelijöitä ym. [14]
### Add fonts to your system
# https://insileco.github.io/2017/05/23/add-icons-on-your-r-plot/

dir.create("assets", showWarnings = FALSE)
##-- URLs
urls <- c(
  'https://github.com/jpswalsh/academicons/raw/master/fonts/academicons.ttf',
  'https://github.com/inSileco/inSileco.github.io/raw/dev/static/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf',
  'https://github.com/ionic-team/ionicons/blob/master/docs/fonts/ionicons.ttf?raw=true'
)
##-- download the fonts. For some reason this did not work, so I downloaded font files manually.
for (i in 1:3){
  download.file(urls[i], destfile=paste0("assets/", basename(urls[i])))
}

font_paths("assets")
font_add(family = 'academicons', regular = 'assets/academicons.ttf')
font_add(family = 'FontAwesome', regular = 'fontawesome-webfont.ttf')
font_add(family = 'ionicons', regular = 'ionicons.ttf')
##-- check the font families available
font_families()
windowsFonts()
windowsFonts(ionic = "ionicons", awesome = "FontAwesome", acade="academicons")

cols <- c("#3fb3b2", "#8555b4", "#ffdd55", "#1b95e0")
val <- 61970:62046
ias <- sapply(val, FUN=intToUtf8)
coord <- expand.grid(rev(1:11), 1:7)
##
par(mar=c(2,2,2,2), family = "ionic")
plot(coord[,1], coord[,2], ann=FALSE, axes=FALSE, pch=ias, cex=5, col=cols)

ggplot(data.frame(A=rep(1:10,10),B=rep(1:10,each=10),C=1:100), aes(x=A,y=B,shape=factor(C)))+
  geom_point(size=10, family="ionic")+
  scale_shape_manual(values=intToUtf8(61970:62969, multiple=TRUE))+
  theme(legend.position = "none")

start <- 61970
dat <- data.frame(
  A=rep(1:10,10),
  B=rep(1:10,each=10),
  C=intToUtf8(start:(start+99), multiple=TRUE)
)
ggplot(dat, aes(x=A,y=B,label=C))+
  geom_text(size=10)#, family="serif")

library(showtext)
font_add(family = 'academicons', regular = 'academicons.ttf')
font_add(family = 'FontAwesome', regular = 'fontawesome-webfont.ttf')
font_add(family = 'ionicons', regular = 'ionicons.ttf')
font_families()
showtext_begin()
strt <- 61440
dat <- data.frame(
  A=rep(1:10,10),
  B=rep(1:10, each=10),
  C=intToUtf8(strt:(strt+99),multiple=TRUE)
)
ggplot(dat,aes(x=A,y=B,label="\uf006"))+
  geom_text(size=10, family="FontAwesome")

ggplot(data.frame(A=rep(1:10,10),B=rep(1:10,each=10),C=1:100), aes(x=A,y=B,shape=factor(C)))+
  geom_point(size=10)+
  scale_shape_manual(values=intToUtf8(9828:9927, multiple=TRUE))+
  theme(legend.position = "none")

Malmquist Productivity Growth Index

Linear Programming for the Malmquist Productivity Growth Index [15] is a method to make uncertain prediction into the future based on existing trend data.

Html widgets

HTML widgets: Bring the best of JavaScript data visualization to R [16]

See also

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