In this post, we will learn how to encircle data points with ggplot2. In R, there are multiple ways to highlight/annotate data points. Here we will use, ggalt, one of the ggplot2 extension packages to encircle data points. ggalt's geom_encircle() function can automagically … [Read more...] about How to encircle a set of points in R with ggplot2
How to wrap long title in ggplot2
In this post, we will learn how to wrap a long title into multiple lines in ggplot2. When your title to a plot made. with ggplot2 is really long, you only see a part of it in the plot. Here we will see examples of dealing with long ggplot2 title in four different ways. We will … [Read more...] about How to wrap long title in ggplot2
How to write a function make histograms with ggplot
In this tutorial, we will learn how to write a function to make a histograms using ggplot2 in R. Writing a function to create plots is useful, when you make a lot of plots, in this example, a lot of histograms. Thanks to the upcoming 2nd edition of R for Data Science by … [Read more...] about How to write a function make histograms with ggplot
How to selectively remove legends with ggplot2
In this post, we will see examples of removing some of the legends from a plot having multiple legends made with ggplot2. Legends in a plot help us understand the relationship between two variables in a plot with respect to other variables in the dataset. We will learn that we … [Read more...] about How to selectively remove legends with ggplot2
How to Visualize Missing Values in a dataframe as heatmap
In this post, we will learn how to visualize a dataframe with missing values represented as NAs as a heatmap. A quick visualization of missing values in the data is useful in analyzing the data. We will use mainly tidyverse approach, first to create a toy dataframe with missing … [Read more...] about How to Visualize Missing Values in a dataframe as heatmap