Labeling a plot greatly help understand the gist of a plot easily. ggplot2 offers a number of ways to add text labels to a plot. Often directly adding the labels on a plot instead of having a legend is a better option. The R package, geomtextpath, a ggplot2 extension package … [Read more...] about Direct Labeling on line plots with geomtextpath
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Remove Legend Title in ggplot2 (labs, guides, theme)
In this tutorial, you’ll learn four easy ways to remove legend titles in ggplot2 using scale_fill_discrete(), scale_fill_manual(), guides() with guide_legend(), and theme(legend.title = element_blank()). Each method works slightly differently depending on whether your legend … [Read more...] about Remove Legend Title in ggplot2 (labs, guides, theme)
Visualizing Stock Return of a Company Over Time with Barplots
In this tutorial, we will learn how to visualize a company’s stock return over time. A stock's return is defined as the capital gains/losses and income from dividend. We will use the adjusted stock price to compute the nominal return using the fantastic tidyquant R … [Read more...] about Visualizing Stock Return of a Company Over Time with Barplots
Adding and Troubleshooting Text Annotations on a plot with ggplot2
Adding text annotations to a plot can greatly help understanding a plot better. In this tutorial, we will learn couple of examples of adding text annotations to a scatter plot with three groups of samples. First we see couple of examples of what might typically go wrong while … [Read more...] about Adding and Troubleshooting Text Annotations on a plot with ggplot2
Visualizing Stock Price of a Single Company Over Time
In this tutorial, we will learn how to visualize a company's stock price over time. Stock data is an example of time series data, where we have stock price of a company for a period of time. First, we will learn how to get stock price for a company of interest and use ggplot2 to … [Read more...] about Visualizing Stock Price of a Single Company Over Time