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ggplot: Easy as pie (charts)

August 11, 2021 | R on I Should Be Writing

This post by no means endorses the use of pie charts. But, if you must, here’s how… For some reason, the top Google results for “ggplot2 pie chart” show some very convoluted code to accomplish what should be easy: Make slices Add labels to the mid...
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ggplot: plot only some of the data

July 11, 2021 | R on I Should Be Writing

Often (especially when working with large and/or rich datasets) our (gg)plots can feel cluttered with information. But they don’t have to be! Let’s look at the following plot: Generate some data
library(dplyr)

bfi <- psychTools::bfi %>% 
  mutate(
    O = across(starts_with("O")) %>% rowMeans(na.rm = TRUE),
    C = across(starts_with("C")) %>% rowMeans(na.rm = TRUE),
    E = across(starts_with("E")) %>% rowMeans(na.rm = TRUE),
    A = across(starts_with("A")) %>% rowMeans(na.rm = TRUE),
    N = across(starts_with("N")) %>% rowMeans(na.rm = TRUE)
  ) %>% 
  mutate(
    gender = factor(gender, labels = c("Man", "Woman")),
    education = factor(education, labels = c("HS", "finished HS", "some college", "college graduate", "graduate degree"))
  ) %>% 
  select(gender, education, age, O:N) %>% 
  tidyr::drop_na(education) %>% 
  # multiply the data set
  sample_n(size = 10000, replace = TRUE) %>% 
  # and add some noise
  mutate(across(O:N, \(x) x + rnorm(x, 0, sd(x))))
library(ggplot2)

theme_set(theme_bw())

base_plot <- ggplot(bfi, aes(age, O, color = education)) + 
  facet_wrap(facets = vars(gender)) + 
  coord_cartesian(ylim = c(1, 6)) + 
  scale_color_viridis_d()

base_plot + 
  geom_point(shape = 16, alpha = 0.1) + 
  geom_smooth(se = FALSE)
This is a busy plot. It’s hard to see what the each ...
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