compare_areas: Plot compare areas chart

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Description

Returns ggplot of compare areas chart

Usage

compare_areas(
  data,
  area,
  value,
  lowerci,
  upperci,
  fill,
  order = "desc",
  top_areas,
  title = "",
  xlab = "",
  ylab = "",
  legend.position = "bottom",
  display.values = FALSE,
  dps = 1
)

Arguments

data	data.frame object to plot using ggplot2 functions
area	field containing variable to be plotted on y axis (unquoted)
value	field containing variable to be plotted on x axis (unquoted)
lowerci	field containing variable to be plotted as lower confidence interval (unquoted - not required)
upperci	string; field containing variable to be plotted as upper confidence interval (unquoted - not required)
fill	field to be used to determine the colouring of the bars (unquoted)
order	one of "alphabetical", "asc" or "desc" - to determine how to order the bars
top_areas	character vector; the areas to fix at the top of the chart
title	string; title of chart
xlab	string; x-axis title
ylab	string; y-axis title
legend.position	the position of legends ("none", "left", "right", "bottom", "top", or two-element numeric vector)
display.values	logical; where or not to display the rounded values next to the bars on the chart
dps	number; number of decimal places to be displayed when display.values = TRUE. The default is 1.

Value

a ggplot of a compare areas chart

See Also

Other quick charts: box_plots(), compare_indicators(), map(), overview(), population(), trends()

Examples

library(dplyr)
df <- create_test_data()
parent <- "PAC11"
top_names <- c("C001", parent)
ordered_levels <- c("Better",
                    "Similar",
                    "Worse",
                    "Not compared")
df_ca <- df %>%
        filter(IndicatorName == "Indicator 3",
               (AreaCode %in% top_names |
                        ParentAreaCode == parent))
p <- compare_areas(df_ca, AreaCode, Value,
                   fill = Significance,
                   lowerci = LCI,
                   upperci = UCI,
                   order = "desc",
                   top_areas = top_names,
                   title = "Compare the local areas")
p

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