Custom Icon Scatter

Authors

[Editor] Hu Zheng;

[Contributors]

Note

Hiplot website

This page is the tutorial for source code version of the Hiplot Custom Icon Scatter plugin. You can also use the Hiplot website to achieve no code ploting. For more information please see the following link:

https://hiplot.cn/basic/custom-icon-scatter?lang=en

A scatter plot with customizable icons.

Setup

  • System Requirements: Cross-platform (Linux/MacOS/Windows)

  • Programming language: R

  • Dependent packages: echarts4r; echarts4r.assets

# Install packages
if (!requireNamespace("echarts4r", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("echarts4r")
}
if (!requireNamespace("echarts4r.assets", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install_github("JohnCoene/echarts4r.assets")
}

# Load packages
library(echarts4r)
library(echarts4r.assets)

Data Preparation

# Load data
data <- read.delim("files/Hiplot/035-custom-icon-scatter-data.txt", header = T)

# convert data structure
draw_data <- data.frame(
  x = data[["mpg"]],
  y = data[["wt"]],
  size = data[["qsec"]]
  )
rm(data)

# View data
head(draw_data)
     x     y  size
1 21.0 2.620 16.46
2 21.0 2.875 17.02
3 22.8 2.320 18.61
4 21.4 3.215 19.44
5 18.7 3.440 17.02
6 18.1 3.460 20.22

Visualization

# Custom Icon Scatter
p <- draw_data |>
  e_charts(x) |>
  e_scatter(
    y,
    size,
    symbol = ea_icons("warning"),
    name = "warning"
    )

p
FigureΒ 1: Custom Icon Scatter