Group Dumbbell

Authors

[Editor] Hu Zheng;

[Contributors]

Note

Hiplot website

This page is the tutorial for source code version of the Hiplot Group Dumbbell 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/group-dumbbell?lang=en

Setup

System Requirements: Cross-platform (Linux/MacOS/Windows)
Programming language: R
Dependent packages: ggplot2; ggalt

# Install packages
if (!requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("ggplot2")
}
if (!requireNamespace("ggalt", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("ggalt")
}

# Load packages
library(ggplot2)
library(ggalt)

Data Preparation

# Load data
data <- read.delim("files/Hiplot/083-group-dumbbell-data.txt", header = T)

# Convert data structure
data <- data[order(data[["group"]], data[["y1952"]]),]
data[["country"]] <- factor(data[["country"]], levels = data[["country"]])

# View data
head(data)

              country  y1952  y2007 group
13              Haiti 37.579 60.916     A
2             Bolivia 40.414 65.554     A
12          Guatemala 42.023 70.259     A
11        El Salvador 45.262 71.878     A
9  Dominican Republic 45.928 72.235     A
10            Ecuador 48.357 74.994     A

Visualization

# Group Dumbbell
p <- ggplot(data = data, aes(x = y1952, xend = y2007, y = country, color = group)) +
  geom_dumbbell(size = 1, size_xend = 2, size_x = 2) +
  theme_bw()

p