MakeBreaks: Functions for making breaks

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Functions for making breaks

Description

Functions that return functions suitable to use as the breaks argument in ggplot2's continuous scales and in geom_contour_fill.

Usage

MakeBreaks(binwidth = NULL, bins = 10, exclude = NULL)

AnchorBreaks(anchor = 0, binwidth = NULL, exclude = NULL, bins = 10)

Arguments

binwidth	width of breaks
bins	number of bins, used if binwidth = NULL
exclude	a vector of breaks to exclude
anchor	anchor value

Details

MakeBreaks is essentially an export of the default way ggplot2::stat_contour makes breaks.

AnchorBreaks makes breaks starting from an anchor value and covering the range of the data according to binwidth.

Value

A function that takes a range as argument and a binwidth as an optional argument and returns a sequence of equally spaced intervals covering the range.

See Also

Other ggplot2 helpers: WrapCircular(), geom_arrow(), geom_contour2(), geom_contour_fill(), geom_label_contour(), geom_relief(), geom_streamline(), guide_colourstrip(), map_labels, reverselog_trans(), scale_divergent, scale_longitude, stat_na(), stat_subset()

Examples

my_breaks <- MakeBreaks(10)
my_breaks(c(1, 100))
my_breaks(c(1, 100), 20)    # optional new binwidth argument ignored

MakeBreaks()(c(1, 100), 20)  # but is not ignored if initial binwidth is NULL

# One to one mapping between contours and breaks
library(ggplot2)
binwidth <- 20
ggplot(reshape2::melt(volcano), aes(Var1, Var2, z = value)) +
    geom_contour(aes(color = after_stat(level)), binwidth = binwidth) +
    scale_color_continuous(breaks = MakeBreaks(binwidth))

#Two ways of getting the same contours. Better use the second one.
ggplot(reshape2::melt(volcano), aes(Var1, Var2, z = value)) +
    geom_contour2(aes(color = after_stat(level)), breaks = AnchorBreaks(132),
                  binwidth = binwidth) +
    geom_contour2(aes(color = after_stat(level)), breaks = AnchorBreaks(132, binwidth)) +
    scale_color_continuous(breaks = AnchorBreaks(132, binwidth))

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