gghexagon {ggplot}R Documentation

Grob function: hexagons

Description

Create hexagon binning of data points as created by Dan Carr.

Usage

gghexagon(plot = .PLOT, aesthetics=list(), ..., data=NULL)

Arguments

plot the plot object to modify
aesthetics named list of aesthetic mappings, see details for more information
... other options, see details for more information
data data source, if not specified the plot default will be used

Details

This grob is useful for scatterplots with a lot of overplotting. It bins the region into hexagons, counts the number of points in each hexagonal bin and then plots them.

Aesthetic mappings that this grob function understands:

These can be specified in the plot defaults (see ggplot) or in the aesthetics argument. If you want to modify the position of the points or any axis options, you will need to add a position scale to the plot. These functions start with ps, eg. pscontinuous or pscategorical

Other options:

Author(s)

Hadley Wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com>

See Also

grid.hexagon, grob_2density for another way of dealing with overplotting

Examples

m <- ggplot(movies, aesthetics=list(y=length, x=rating))
gghexagon(m)
gghexagon(m, xbins=50)
gghexagon(m, style="lattice")
gghexagon(m, aes=list(weight=votes))

[Package ggplot version 0.4.0 Index]