Charts and Graphs in R

Tushar B. Kute,
http://tusharkute.com
Charts and Graphs supported

• Pie chart
• Bar chart
• Box plots
• Historams
• Line graphs
• Scatter plots
Pie charts

• R Programming language has numerous libraries to

create charts and graphs.
• A pie-chart is a representation of values as slices of a
circle with different colors.
• The slices are labeled and the numbers corresponding
to each slice is also represented in the chart.
• In R the pie chart is created using the pie() function
which takes positive numbers as a vector input.
• The additional parameters are used to control labels,
color, title etc.
Pie charts – Syntax

• The basic syntax for creating a pie-chart using the R is −

pie(x, labels, radius, main, col, clockwise)
• Following is the description of the parameters used −
– x is a vector containing the numeric values used in the pie
chart.
– labels is used to give description to the slices.
– radius indicates the radius of the circle of the pie chart.(value
between −1 and +1).
– main indicates the title of the chart.
– col indicates the color palette.
– clockwise is a logical value indicating if the slices are drawn
clockwise or anti clockwise.
Pie charts – Example

# Create data for the graph.

x <- c(21, 62, 10, 53)
labels <- c("London", "New York", "Singapore",
"Mumbai")

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "city.png")

# Plot the chart.

pie(x,labels)

# Save the file.

dev.off()
Pie charts – Example
Pie chart example with colors

# Create data for the graph.

x <- c(21, 62, 10, 53)
labels <- c("Pune", "Nashik", "Aurangabad", "Mumbai")

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "city_title_colours.png")

# Plot the chart with title and rainbow color pallet.

pie(x, labels, main = "City pie chart", col =
rainbow(length(x)))

# Save the file.

dev.off()
Pie chart example with colors
Pie chart with colors and labels

# Create data for the graph.

x <- c(21, 62, 10,53)
labels <- c("London","New York","Singapore","Mumbai")

piepercent<- round(100*x/sum(x), 1)
png(file = "city_percentage_legends.png")

# Plot the chart.

pie(x, labels = piepercent, main = "City pie chart",col =
rainbow(length(x)))
legend("topright", c("Pune","Nashik","Aurangabad","Mumbai"),
cex = 0.8, fill = rainbow(length(x)))

# Save the file.

dev.off()
Pie chart with colors and labels
3D Pie Chart

# Get the library.

library(plotrix)

# Create data for the graph.

x <- c(21, 62, 10,53)
lbl <- c("Nashik","Aurangabad","Navi Mumbai","Nagpur")

png(file = "3d_pie_chart.png")

# Plot the chart.

pie3D(x,labels = lbl,explode = 0.1, main = "Pie Chart of
Countries ")

dev.off()
3D Pie Chart
Bar charts

• A bar chart represents data in rectangular bars

with length of the bar proportional to the value
of the variable.
• R uses the function barplot() to create bar
charts.
• R can draw both vertical and horizontal bars in
the bar chart.
• In bar chart each of the bars can be given
different colors.
Bar charts – Syntax

• The basic syntax to create a bar-chart in R is −

barplot(H, xlab, ylab, main, names.arg, col)
• Following is the description of the parameters used −
– H is a vector or matrix containing numeric values used in
bar chart.
– xlab is the label for x axis.
– ylab is the label for y axis.
– main is the title of the bar chart.
– names.arg is a vector of names appearing under each
bar.
– col is used to give colors to the bars in the graph.
Bar charts – Example

# Create the data for the chart.

H <- c(7,12,28,3,41)

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "barchart.png")

# Plot the bar chart.

barplot(H)

# Save the file.

dev.off()
Bar charts – Example
Bar chart with attributes

# Create the data for the chart.

H <- c(7,12,28,3,41)
M <- c("Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul")

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "barchart_months_revenue.png")

# Plot the bar chart.

barplot(H,names.arg = M,xlab = "Month",ylab =
"Revenue",col = "blue", main = "Revenue chart",border
= "red")

dev.off()
Bar chart with attributes
Bar chart – Stacked

colors <- c("green","orange","brown")

months <- c("Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul")
regions <- c("East","West","North")

Values <- matrix(c(2,9,3,11,9,4,8,7,3,12,5,2,8,10,11),nrow =

3,ncol = 5,byrow = TRUE)

png(file = "barchart_stacked.png")

barplot(Values,main = "total revenue",names.arg = months,xlab =

"month",ylab = "revenue", col = colors)

legend("topleft", regions, cex = 1.3, fill = colors)

dev.off()
Bar chart – Stacked
Boxplot

• Boxplots are a measure of how well distributed is

the data in a data set.
• It divides the data set into three quartiles. This
graph represents the minimum, maximum, median,
first quartile and third quartile in the data set.
• It is also useful in comparing the distribution of
data across data sets by drawing boxplots for each
of them.
• Boxplots are created in R by using the boxplot()
function.
Boxplot – Syntax

• The basic syntax to create a boxplot in R is −

boxplot(x, data, notch, varwidth, names, main)
• Following is the description of the parameters used −
– x is a vector or a formula
– data is the data frame.
– notch is a logical value. Set as TRUE to draw a notch.
– varwidth is a logical value. Set as true to draw width of the
box proportionate to the sample size.
– names are the group labels which will be printed under
each boxplot.
– main is used to give a title to the graph.
Boxplot – Example

• We use the data set "mtcars" available in the R

environment to create a basic boxplot. Let's
look at the columns "mpg" and "cyl" in mtcars.

input <- mtcars[,c('mpg','cyl')]

print(head(input))
Boxplot – Example

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "boxplot.png")

# Plot the chart.

boxplot(mpg ~ cyl, data = mtcars, xlab =
"Number of Cylinders", ylab = "Miles
Per Gallon", main = "Mileage Data")

# Save the file.

dev.off()
Boxplot – Example
Boxplot with notch

png(file = "boxplot_with_notch.png")

# Plot the chart.

boxplot(mpg ~ cyl, data = mtcars,
xlab = "Number of Cylinders",
ylab = "Miles Per Gallon",
main = "Mileage Data",
notch = TRUE,
varwidth = TRUE,
col = c("green","yellow","purple"),
names = c("High","Medium","Low")
)
dev.off()
Boxplot with notch
Histogram

• A histogram represents the frequencies of

values of a variable bucketed into ranges.
• Histogram is similar to bar chart but the
difference is it groups the values into
continuous ranges.
• Each bar in histogram represents the height of
the number of values present in that range.
• R creates histogram using hist() function. This
function takes a vector as an input and uses
some more parameters to plot histograms.
Histogram – Syntax

• The basic syntax for creating a histogram using R is −

hist(v,main,xlab,xlim,ylim,breaks,col,border)
• Following is the description of the parameters used −
v is a vector containing numeric values used in histogram.
main indicates title of the chart.
col is used to set color of the bars.
border is used to set border color of each bar.
xlab is used to give description of x-axis.
xlim is used to specify the range of values on the x-axis.
ylim is used to specify the range of values on the y-axis.
breaks is used to mention the width of each bar.
Histogram – Example

# Create data for the graph.

v <- c(9,13,21,8,36,22,12,41,31,33,19)

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "histogram.png")

# Create the histogram.

hist(v,xlab = "Weight",col = "yellow",border = "blue")

# Save the file.

dev.off()
Histogram – Example
Histogram – Example

# Create data for the graph.

v <- c(9,13,21,8,36,22,12,41,31,33,19)

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "histogram_lim_breaks.png")

# Create the histogram.

hist(v,xlab = "Weight",col = "green",border =
"red", xlim = c(0,40), ylim = c(0,5), breaks = 5)

dev.off()
Histogram – Example
Line graph

• A line chart is a graph that connects a series of

points by drawing line segments between them.
• These points are ordered in one of their
coordinate (usually the x-coordinate) value.
• Line charts are usually used in identifying the
trends in data.
• The plot() function in R is used to create the line
graph.
Line graph – Syntax

• The basic syntax to create a line chart in R is −

plot(v,type,col,xlab,ylab)
• Following is the description of the parameters used −
– v is a vector containing the numeric values.
– type takes the value "p" to draw only the points, "i" to
draw only the lines and "o" to draw both points and
lines.
– xlab is the label for x axis.
– ylab is the label for y axis.
– main is the Title of the chart.
– col is used to give colors to both the points and lines.
Line graph – Example

# Create the data for the chart.

v <- c(7,12,28,3,41)

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "line_chart.png")

# Plot the line graph.

plot(v,type = "o")

# Save the file.

dev.off()
Line graph – Example
Line graph – example.

# Create the data for the chart.

v <- c(7,12,28,3,41)

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "line_chart_label_colored.png")

# Plot the bar chart.

plot(v,type = "o", col = "red", xlab = "Month",
ylab = "Rain fall", main = "Rain fall chart")

# Save the file.

dev.off()
Line graph – example.
Multiple lines in chart

# Create the data for the chart.

v <- c(7,12,28,3,41)
t <- c(14,7,6,19,3)

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "line_chart_2_lines.png")

# Plot the bar chart.

plot(v,type = "o",col = "red", xlab = "Month", ylab = "Rain
fall", main = "Rain fall chart")

lines(t, type = "o", col = "blue")

dev.off()
Multiple lines in chart
ScatterPlot

• Scatterplots show many points plotted in the

Cartesian plane.
• Each point represents the values of two
variables.
• One variable is chosen in the horizontal axis and
another in the vertical axis.
• The simple scatterplot is created using the
plot() function.
ScatterPlot – Example

• We use the data set "mtcars" available in the R

environment to create a basic scatterplot.
• Let's use the columns "wt" and "mpg" in mtcars.

input <- mtcars[,c('wt','mpg')]

print(head(input))
ScatterPlot – Example

# Get the input values.

input <- mtcars[,c('wt','mpg')]

png(file = "scatterplot.png")

# Plot the chart for cars with weight between 2.5 to 5 and
mileage between 15 and 30.
plot(x = input$wt,y = input$mpg,
xlab = "Weight",
ylab = "Milage",
xlim = c(2.5,5),
ylim = c(15,30),
main = "Weight vs Milage"
)
dev.off()
ScatterPlot – Example
Scatter Plot matrices

• When we have more than two variables and we want to

find the correlation between one variable versus the
remaining ones we use scatterplot matrix.
• We use pairs() function to create matrices of scatterplots.
– Syntax:
pairs(formula, data)
– Following is the description of the parameters used −
formula represents the series of variables used in pairs.
data represents the data set from which the variables
will be taken.
Scatter Plot matrices – Example

# Give the chart file a name.

png(file = "scatterplot_matrices.png")

# Plot the matrices between 4 variables giving 12

plots.

# One variable with 3 others and total 4 variables.

pairs(~wt+mpg+disp+cyl,data = mtcars,main =
"Scatterplot Matrix")

dev.off()
Scatter Plot matrices – Example
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