Comparison of different circle graphs

See in my Picasa here and get corrplot package here. Thanks Bob O'Hara's advice:)

I found people's tastes differ, so input parameter col (fill color) and bg (background color) was added in new edition. What is more, now you can order your variables using PCA (order=TRUE) to get a better impression.

Play Sliding Puzzles on R

The code was shared on my google docs. See it here.

Visulization of correlation matrix

• Color Image

data(mtcars)
fit = lm(mpg ~ ., mtcars)
cor = summary(fit, correlation = TRUE)$correlation
cor2 = t(cor[11:1, ])
colors = c("#A50F15", "#DE2D26", "#FB6A4A", "#FCAE91", "#FEE5D9",
"white", "#EFF3FF", "#BDD7E7", "#6BAED6", "#3182BD", "#08519C")
image(1:11, 1:11, cor2, axes = FALSE, ann = F, col = colors)
text(rep(1:11, 11), rep(1:11, each = 11), round(100 * cor2))

• Ellipses
  

library(ellipse)
col = colors[as.vector(apply(corr, 2, rank))]
plotcorr(cor, col = col, mar = rep(0, 4))

• Taiyun's circles (my method)
  

circle.cor = function(cor, axes = FALSE, xlab = "",
     ylab = "", asp = 1, title = "Taiyun's cor-matrix circles",
     ...) {
 n = nrow(cor)
 par(mar = c(0, 0, 2, 0), bg = "white")
 plot(c(0, n + 0.8), c(0, n + 0.8), axes = axes, xlab = "",
         ylab = "", asp = 1, type = "n")
 ##add grid
 segments(rep(0.5, n + 1), 0.5 + 0:n, rep(n + 0.5, n + 1),
         0.5 + 0:n, col = "gray")
 segments(0.5 + 0:n, rep(0.5, n + 1), 0.5 + 0:n, rep(n + 0.5,
                 n), col = "gray")
 ##define circles' background color.
 ##black for positive correlation coefficient and white for negative
 bg = cor
 bg[cor > 0] = "black"
 bg[cor <= 0] = "white"   ##plot n*n circles using vector language, suggested by Yihui Xie  symbols(rep(1:n, each = n), rep(n:1, n), add = TRUE, inches = F,    circles = as.vector(sqrt(abs(cor))/2), bg = as.vector(bg))  text(rep(0, n), 1:n, n:1, col = "red")  text(1:n, rep(n + 1), 1:n, col = "red")  title(title) } ## an example data(mtcars) fit = lm(mpg ~ ., mtcars) cor = summary(fit, correlation = TRUE)$correlation circle.cor(cor) 

The circles with black background denote positive correlation coefficient, and the area of circles denotes the absolute value. See more in my Picasa here.

The above three graphs based on the same data. Dear friends, which gives your more information at first galance?

Andrews' Curve And Parallel Coordinate Graph

Unison graph and parallel coordinate graph share similar thought in visualising the difference of multidimensional data, thought the former is much more complicated. Based on iris data, we can see their performance.

• Parallel coordinate graph

• Andrews' Curve

We can see that unison graph seems more vivid and powerful.


#----------------------------------------------------------------------
#code of unison graph
x=as.matrix(iris[1:4])
t<-seq(-pi, pi, pi/30) m<-nrow(x); n<-ncol(x) f<-matrix(0, c(m,length(t))) for(i in 1:m){ f[i,]<-x[i,1]/sqrt(2) for( j in 2:n){ if (j%%2==0) f[i,]<-f[i,]+x[i,j]*sin(j/2*t) else f[i,]<-f[i,]+x[i,j]*cos(j%/%2*t) } } plot(c(-pi,pi), c(min(f),max(f)), type="n", main="The Unison graph of Iris", xlab="t", ylab="f(t)") for(i in 1:m) lines(t, f[i,] , col=c("red", "green3", "blue")[unclass(iris$Species[i])]) legend(x=-3,y=15,c('setosa','versicolor', 'virginica'), lty=1,col=c("red", "green3", "blue"))

Scatterplots

There are many types of scatterplots in R, here are some examples based on the famous Iris data.

• pairs() and coplot() in package graphics.

• gpairs() in package YaleToolkit.

• scatterplot.matrix() or spm() in package car.

• splom() in package lattice.