er_style_quantile: Quantile summary builders for exposure-response plots

In erplots: Model-Agnostic Exposure-Response Plots

Quantile summary builders for exposure-response plots

Description

Builder functions for the quantile layer (er_plot_add_quantiles()), drawing a point/interval summary per exposure quantile bin as an error bar or a pointrange, optionally with bin-boundary vlines.

Usage

er_style_quantile_errorbar(
  data,
  config,
  stratify,
  exposure,
  response,
  strata,
  theme,
  point_size = 2,
  errorbar_width = 0.025,
  label_size = 3,
  ...
)

er_style_quantile_errorbar_vlines(
  data,
  config,
  stratify,
  exposure,
  response,
  strata,
  theme,
  point_size = 2,
  errorbar_width = 0.025,
  label_size = 3,
  vline_colour = "grey50",
  vline_linetype = "dotted",
  vline_labels = FALSE,
  vline_label_position = c("auto", "top", "bottom"),
  vline_label_size = 3,
  vline_label_colour = NULL,
  vline_label_fill = NULL,
  vline_label_inset = 0.05,
  vline_label_digits = 0,
  ...
)

er_style_quantile_pointrange(
  data,
  config,
  stratify,
  exposure,
  response,
  strata,
  theme,
  label_size = 3,
  pointrange_size = NULL,
  pointrange_linewidth = NULL,
  ...
)

er_style_quantile_pointrange_vlines(
  data,
  config,
  stratify,
  exposure,
  response,
  strata,
  theme,
  label_size = 3,
  pointrange_size = NULL,
  pointrange_linewidth = NULL,
  vline_colour = "grey50",
  vline_linetype = "dotted",
  vline_labels = FALSE,
  vline_label_position = c("auto", "top", "bottom"),
  vline_label_size = 3,
  vline_label_colour = NULL,
  vline_label_fill = NULL,
  vline_label_inset = 0.05,
  vline_label_digits = 0,
  ...
)

Arguments

data	The original data frame.
config	Configuration for the specific plot.
stratify	Logical: whether to stratify.
exposure	Exposure variable.
response	Response variable.
strata	Stratification variable.
theme	Theme components.
point_size	Point size for er_style_quantile_errorbar(). Defaults to 2.
errorbar_width	Width of er_style_quantile_errorbar()'s error bars. Defaults to 0.025.
label_size	Text size for the per-bin value label. Defaults to 3.
...	Additional named arguments forwarded from er_plot_add_quantiles()'s own ....
vline_colour, vline_linetype	Colour and linetype of quantile-bin boundary lines. Default to "grey50" and "dotted" respectively.
vline_labels	Logical: whether the ⁠_vlines⁠ builders also label each bin boundary with its exposure value. Defaults to FALSE.
vline_label_position	One of "auto" (the default), "top", or "bottom" – vertical placement of vline_labels.
vline_label_size, vline_label_colour, vline_label_fill	Size, text colour, and background fill for vline_labels. vline_label_size defaults to 3; vline_label_colour/vline_label_fill default to NULL (ggplot2::geom_label()'s own defaults).
vline_label_inset	Fraction of the response range vline_labels are inset from the panel edge. Defaults to 0.05.
vline_label_digits	Number of decimal places vline_labels are rounded to. Defaults to 0.
pointrange_size, pointrange_linewidth	Size and linewidth for ggplot2::geom_pointrange(). Default to NULL, which leaves geom_pointrange()'s own built-in size/linewidth defaults in effect.

Details

See er_style() for the shared builder interface these functions implement, including how to write a custom builder of your own.

Value

A geom, or a list of geoms; see er_style().

Choosing a builder

All four builders summarise the same per-bin point/interval; which one to reach for is a choice of visual idiom, independent of response type:

• er_style_quantile_errorbar() (the default) – a point with an error bar.

• er_style_quantile_pointrange() – a point with a range line (ggplot2::geom_pointrange()) instead of an error bar.

• er_style_quantile_errorbar_vlines() / er_style_quantile_pointrange_vlines() – the same two idioms, plus a dotted vertical line at every quantile-bin boundary (see "Boundary lines" below).

All built-in quantile builders are tagged er_style_tag(fn, layer = "plot_quantile"), so er_plot_add_quantiles() errors informatively if handed a builder tagged for a different layer.

Boundary lines

The ⁠_vlines⁠ variants add a line at every quantile-bin boundary – including the two outer boundaries at the minimum non-placebo exposure and the overall maximum exposure, not just the boundaries shared between two adjacent bins – so a reader can see every bin edge from the plot alone. A boundary whose exposure value falls outside a narrowed er_plot_theme() xlim is dropped (with a warning), the same way a quantile summary marker is.

Boundary labels

The ⁠_vlines⁠ variants can also label each boundary with its exposure value (vline_labels = TRUE, off by default). Labels are drawn with ggplot2::geom_label() (an opaque background, since a label sits directly on a vline spanning the full panel height) along either the top or bottom edge of the panel. vline_label_position = "auto" (the default) picks whichever vertical half doesn't contain the corner a summary annotation (er_plot_add_summary()) would place itself in – based on the same raw-data corner-crowdedness calculation the summary layer itself uses – so the two don't collide; this works whether or not a summary layer is actually present, since both layers compute the same deterministic quantity independently. Override with "top"/"bottom" to place labels manually instead.

Stratified dodging

When stratified, all four builders horizontally dodge each quantile bin's points/bars/labels apart by er_plot_theme()'s dodge_width (a fraction of the exposure range, default 0.05) – a cross-layer, stratification-wide setting controlled via er_plot_theme() rather than a per-builder argument here, since it's about how stratification lays out a dodged layer, not one builder's own visual style.

See Also

er_style()

Examples

if (requireNamespace("erglm", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(erglm)
  mod <- erglm_model(ae1 ~ aucss, erglm_data, family = binomial())

  # er_style_quantile_errorbar(): point + error bar, the default
  erglm_data |>
    er_plot(aucss, ae1) |>
    er_plot_add_model(mod) |>
    er_plot_add_quantiles(style = er_style_quantile_errorbar) |>
    plot()

  # er_style_quantile_pointrange(): a pointrange instead
  erglm_data |>
    er_plot(aucss, ae1) |>
    er_plot_add_model(mod) |>
    er_plot_add_quantiles(style = er_style_quantile_pointrange) |>
    plot()

  # er_style_quantile_errorbar_vlines(): the default, plus dotted
  # lines marking every quantile-bin boundary, including the outer
  # edges at the minimum non-placebo and maximum exposure
  erglm_data |>
    er_plot(aucss, ae1) |>
    er_plot_add_model(mod) |>
    er_plot_add_quantiles(style = er_style_quantile_errorbar_vlines) |>
    plot()

  # Customize the quantile builder's appearance.
  erglm_data |>
    er_plot(aucss, ae1) |>
    er_plot_add_model(mod) |>
    er_plot_add_quantiles(
      style = er_style_quantile_errorbar,
      point_size = 4,
      errorbar_width = 0.08,
      label_size = 4
    ) |>
    plot()

  erglm_data |>
    er_plot(aucss, ae1) |>
    er_plot_add_model(mod) |>
    er_plot_add_quantiles(
      style = er_style_quantile_pointrange,
      label_size = 4,
      pointrange_size = 2,
      pointrange_linewidth = 1.2
    ) |>
    plot()

  # widening the stratum-dodge spacing via er_plot_theme()
  mod2 <- erglm_model(ae1 ~ aucss + sex, erglm_data, family = binomial())
  erglm_data |>
    er_plot(aucss, ae1, stratify_by = sex) |>
    er_plot_add_model(mod2) |>
    er_plot_add_quantiles(style = er_style_quantile_errorbar) |>
    er_plot_theme(dodge_width = 0.15) |>
    plot()

  # labeling every quantile-bin boundary (including the outer edges)
  # with its exposure value, placed automatically to avoid the
  # summary annotation
  erglm_data |>
    er_plot(aucss, ae1) |>
    er_plot_add_model(mod) |>
    er_plot_add_summary(mod) |>
    er_plot_add_quantiles(style = er_style_quantile_errorbar_vlines, vline_labels = TRUE) |>
    plot()

  # er_style_quantile_pointrange_vlines(): the pointrange equivalent of
  # er_style_quantile_errorbar_vlines()
  erglm_data |>
    er_plot(aucss, ae1) |>
    er_plot_add_model(mod) |>
    er_plot_add_quantiles(style = er_style_quantile_pointrange_vlines) |>
    plot()
}

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