这是一种可能对您有帮助的方法。它使用stat_spoke()
来自 ggplot2。您的每个 y 变量都在 4 次单独调用中映射到辐条半径stat_spoke
。
plot_1 = ggplot(datas, aes(x=Xvar, y=Yvar)) +
stat_spoke(aes(angle=(1/8)*pi, radius=Yvar1), colour="#E41A1C",size=1) +
stat_spoke(aes(angle=(3/8)*pi, radius=Yvar2), colour="#377EB8",size=1) +
stat_spoke(aes(angle=(5/8)*pi, radius=Yvar3), colour="#4DAF4A",size=1) +
stat_spoke(aes(angle=(7/8)*pi, radius=Yvar4), colour="#984EA3",size=1) +
geom_point(shape=1, size = 10)
ggsave("plot_1.png", plot_1)
根据您的数据和特定需求,转换变量以使其更适合绘图可能是有意义的。
normalize = function(x) {
new_x = (x - mean(x)) / sd(x)
new_x = new_x + abs(min(new_x))
return(new_x)
}
plot_2 = ggplot(datas, aes(x=Xvar, y=Yvar)) +
stat_spoke(aes(angle=(1/8)*pi, radius=normalize(Yvar1)), colour="#E41A1C", size=1) +
stat_spoke(aes(angle=(3/8)*pi, radius=normalize(Yvar2)), colour="#377EB8", size=1) +
stat_spoke(aes(angle=(5/8)*pi, radius=normalize(Yvar3)), colour="#4DAF4A", size=1) +
stat_spoke(aes(angle=(7/8)*pi, radius=normalize(Yvar4)), colour="#984EA3", size=1) +
geom_point(shape=1, size = 10)
ggsave("plot_2.png", plot_2)
重要警告:对于相同的辐条半径值,如果线更垂直,则绘制线的幅度会更大,如果线更水平,则绘制线的幅度会更小。这是因为 x 的范围大约是数据集 y 范围的两倍。随着 x 与 y 轴比的变化,绘制的角度也变得扭曲。添加coord_equal(ratio=1)
解决了这个问题,但可能会引入其他问题。
编辑:无循环绘图
这很有趣,也很有教育意义。键入重复的代码可能会更省时!如果有人可以提供改进此代码的建议,请发表评论。
library(reshape2)
dat2 = melt(datas, id.vars=c("Indv", "Xvar", "Yvar"),
variable.name="spoke_var", value.name="spoke_value")
# Apply normalization in a loop. Can plyr do this more gracefully?.
for (var_name in levels(dat2$spoke_var)) {
select_rows = dat2$spoke_var == var_name
norm_dat = normalize(dat2[select_rows, "spoke_value"])
dat2[select_rows, "spoke_value"] = norm_dat
}
# Pick an angle for each Yvar, then add angle column to dat2.
tmp = data.frame(spoke_var=unique(dat2$spoke_var))
tmp$spoke_angle = seq(from=pi/8, by=pi/4, length.out=nrow(tmp))
dat2 = merge(dat2, tmp)
plot_4 = ggplot(dat2, aes(x=Xvar, y=Yvar)) +
stat_spoke(data=dat2, size=1,
aes(colour=spoke_var, angle=spoke_angle, radius=spoke_value)) +
geom_point(data=datas, aes(x=Xvar, y=Yvar), shape=1, size=7) +
coord_equal(ratio=1) +
scale_colour_brewer(palette="Set1")