box_chart: Create box chart

In pgarnry/ggplotHelper: Helper functions for great looking ggplots in R

Description

This function creates an overlay plotting a bar chart in ggplot

Usage

box_chart(data, y, x = NULL, title = NULL, sub.title = NULL,
  flip = FALSE, legend.names = NULL, y.title = NULL, x.title = NULL,
  box.colours = FALSE, min.lim = NULL, max.lim = NULL, ...)

Arguments

data	data frame containing data for plotting
y	character string specifying column name in data that should be y variable
x	character string specifying column name in data that should be x variable
title	character string specifying chart title
sub.title	character string specifying chart sub title
flip	logical indicating whether box chart should be flipped or not
legend.names	character string specifying legend names (default is NULL)
y.title	character string specifying y-axis title
x.title	character string specifying x-axis title
box.colours	logical indicating whether boxes should have same colours or not
min.lim	numeric setting minimum limit on y-axis
max.lim	numeric setting maximum limit on y-axis

Details

Legend names can be modified through a character vector with same length as number of categorical variables in the x variable. If not set, legend names will take its names from the x variable.

Examples

box_chart(mtcars, "mpg", "cyl", title = "Miles per gallon across cylinders",
sub.title = "(Period 2000-2005)", y.title = "Miles per gallon",
x.title = "Cylinders", legend.position = "none")

pgarnry/ggplotHelper documentation built on May 25, 2019, 2:54 a.m.