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Rectangular rugs in the margins

Source: R/geom_rectrug.R
geom_rectmargin.Rd

Like rug plots display data points of a 2D plot as lines in the margins, this function plots rectangles in the margins. Rectangular rugs are convenient for displaying one-dimensional, ranged annotations for two-dimensional plots.

Usage

geom_rectmargin(
  mapping = NULL,
  data = NULL,
  stat = "identity",
  position = "identity",
  ...,
  outside = FALSE,
  sides = "bl",
  length = unit(0.03, "npc"),
  linejoin = "mitre",
  na.rm = FALSE,
  show.legend = NA,
  inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_tilemargin(
  mapping = NULL,
  data = NULL,
  stat = "identity",
  position = "identity",
  ...,
  outside = FALSE,
  sides = "bl",
  length = unit(0.03, "npc"),
  linejoin = "mitre",
  na.rm = FALSE,
  show.legend = NA,
  inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments

mapping

Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes = TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of the plot. You must supply mapping 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 to ggplot().

A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be created.

A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).

stat

The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer. When using a geom_*() function to construct a layer, the stat argument can be used the override the default coupling between geoms and stats. The stat argument accepts the following:

  • A Stat ggproto subclass, for example StatCount.

  • A string naming the stat. To give the stat as a string, strip the function name of the stat_ prefix. For example, to use stat_count(), give the stat as "count".

  • For more information and other ways to specify the stat, see the layer stat documentation.

position

A position adjustment to use on the data for this layer. This can be used in various ways, including to prevent overplotting and improving the display. The position argument accepts the following:

  • The result of calling a position function, such as position_jitter(). This method allows for passing extra arguments to the position.

  • A string naming the position adjustment. To give the position as a string, strip the function name of the position_ prefix. For example, to use position_jitter(), give the position as "jitter".

  • For more information and other ways to specify the position, see the layer position documentation.

...

Other arguments passed on to layer()'s params argument. These arguments broadly fall into one of 4 categories below. Notably, further arguments to the position argument, or aesthetics that are required can not be passed through .... Unknown arguments that are not part of the 4 categories below are ignored.

  • Static aesthetics that are not mapped to a scale, but are at a fixed value and apply to the layer as a whole. For example, colour = "red" or linewidth = 3. The geom's documentation has an Aesthetics section that lists the available options. The 'required' aesthetics cannot be passed on to the params. Please note that while passing unmapped aesthetics as vectors is technically possible, the order and required length is not guaranteed to be parallel to the input data.

  • When constructing a layer using a stat_*() function, the ... argument can be used to pass on parameters to the geom part of the layer. An example of this is stat_density(geom = "area", outline.type = "both"). The geom's documentation lists which parameters it can accept.

  • Inversely, when constructing a layer using a geom_*() function, the ... argument can be used to pass on parameters to the stat part of the layer. An example of this is geom_area(stat = "density", adjust = 0.5). The stat's documentation lists which parameters it can accept.

  • The key_glyph argument of layer() may also be passed on through .... This can be one of the functions described as key glyphs, to change the display of the layer in the legend.

outside

logical of length 1 that controls whether to move the rectangles outside of the plot area. For the best results, it is probably best to set coord_cartesian(clip = "off") and avoid overlap with the default axes by changing the sides argument to "tr".

sides

A string of length 1 that controls which sides of the plot the rug-rectangles appear on. A string containing any letters in "trbl" will set it to top, right, bottom and left respectively.

length

A grid::unit() object that sets the width and height of the rectangles in the x- and y-directions respectively. Note that scale expansion can affect the look of this.

linejoin

Line join style (round, mitre, bevel).

na.rm

If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE, missing values are silently removed.

show.legend

logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.

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().

Value

A Layer ggproto object.

Details

By default, scales are expanded 5\ whereas the rug rectangles will occupy 3\ default. The geom_rectmargin() and geom_tilemargin() versions do the same thing, but are parametrised differently; see geom_rect().

These functions do not have hard-coded required aesthetics, since the x and y directions can be omitted by not choosing a side in the corresponding direction, i.e. y-direction variables are omitted when plotting the rug only on the top and/or bottom. This can result in errors when the aesthetics are not specified appropriately, so some caution is advised.

Aesthetics

geom_rectmargin() requires either one of the following sets of aesthetics, but also can use both:

  • xmin

  • xmax

and/or:

  • ymin

  • ymax

geom_tilemargin() requires either one of the following sets of aesthetics, but can also use both:

  • x

  • width

and/or:

  • y

  • height

Furthermore, geom_rectmargin() and geom_tilemargin() also understand these shared aesthetics:

  • alpha

  • colour

  • fill

  • group

  • linetype

  • size

See also

ggplot2::geom_rug(), geom_rect(), ggplot2::geom_tile()

Examples

# geom_rectmargin() is parameterised by the four corners
df <- data.frame(
  xmin = c(1, 5),
  xmax = c(2, 7),
  ymin = c(1, 2),
  ymax = c(2, 4),
  fill = c("A", "B")
)


ggplot(df, aes(xmin = xmin, xmax = xmax,
               ymin = ymin, ymax = ymax,
               fill = fill)) +
  geom_rect() +
  geom_rectmargin()


# geom_tilemargin() is parameterised by center and size
df <- data.frame(
  x = c(1, 4),
  y = c(1, 2),
  width = c(2, 1),
  height = c(1, 2),
  fill = c("A", "B")
)

ggplot(df, aes(x, y,
               width = width, height = height,
               fill = fill)) +
  geom_tile() +
  geom_tilemargin()