plotBar: Bar graph

In EU-ECDC/EpiReport: Epidemiological Report

Description

This function draws a bar graph of the values of variable 'Yvar' with the categorical variable 'Xvar' on the x-axis.
Expects aggregated data.

Usage

plotBar(
  .data,
  xvar = "XLabel",
  xlabel = "",
  yvar = "YValue",
  ylabel = "",
  fill_color = EcdcColors(col_scale = "qual", n = 1)
)

Arguments

.data	dataframe containing the variables to plot
xvar	character string, name of the variable to plot on the x-axis in quotes (default "XLabel")
xlabel	character string, label of the x axis
yvar	character string, name of the variable to plot on the y-axis in quotes (default "YValue")
ylabel	character string, label of the y axis
fill_color	character string, hexadecimal colour to use in the graph; (default to ECDC green "#65B32E", see EcdcColors(col_scale = "qual", n = 1))

See Also

Global function: getAgeGender
Internal function: EcdcColors
Required Packages: ggplot2

Examples

# --- Create dummy data
mydat <- data.frame(AgeGroup = c("0-25", "26-65", "65+"),
                    NumberOfCases = c(54,32,41))

# --- Plot the dummy data
plotBar(mydat,
        xvar = "AgeGroup",
        xlabel = "Age",
        yvar = "NumberOfCases",
        ylabel = "Number of cases")

EU-ECDC/EpiReport documentation built on Feb. 11, 2021, 6:30 p.m.