Fan Plot

Authors

[Editor] Hu Zheng;

[Contributors]

Note

Hiplot website

This page is the tutorial for source code version of the Hiplot Fan Plot 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/fan?lang=en

The pie chart is a statistical chart designed to clearly show the percentage of each data group by the size of the pie.

Setup

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

  • Programming language: R

  • Dependent packages: plotrix; ggplotify

# Install packages
if (!requireNamespace("plotrix", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("plotrix")
}
if (!requireNamespace("ggplotify", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("ggplotify")
}

# Load packages
library(plotrix)
library(ggplotify)

Data Preparation

The loaded data are different groups and their data.

# Load data
data <- read.delim("files/Hiplot/054-fan-data.txt", header = T)

# View data
head(data)
   group value
1 Group1    13
2 Group2    34
3 Group3    21
4 Group4    43

Visualization

# Fan Plot
p <- as.ggplot(function() {
  fan.plot(data[, 2], main = "", labels = as.character(data[, 1]),
           col = c("#E64B35FF","#4DBBD5FF","#00A087FF","#3C5488FF"))
  })

p
FigureΒ 1: Fan Plot

Different colors represent different groups and different areas represent data and proportion.