Waffle Plot

Authors

[Editor] Hu Zheng;

[Contributors]

Note

Hiplot website

This page is the tutorial for source code version of the Hiplot Waffle 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/waffle?lang=en

Setup

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

  • Programming language: R

  • Dependent packages: waffle

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

# Load packages
library(waffle)

Data Preparation

# Load data
data <- read.delim("files/Hiplot/184-waffle-data.txt", header = T)

# convert data structure
parts <- data[,2]

# View data
head(data)
                      label value
1 Un-breached US Population   230
2                   Premera    11
3                    Anthem    79

Visualization

# Waffle Plot
p <- waffle(parts, rows = 8, size = 1, legend_pos = "right") +
  ggtitle("Waffle Plot") +
  scale_fill_manual(values = c("#e04d39","#5bbad6","#1e9f86")) +
  theme(text = element_text(family = "Arial"),
        plot.title = element_text(size = 12,hjust = 0.5),
        axis.title = element_text(size = 12),
        axis.text = element_text(size = 10),
        axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0, hjust = 0.5,vjust = 1),
        legend.position = "right",
        legend.direction = "vertical",
        legend.title = element_text(size = 10),
        legend.text = element_text(size = 10))

p
FigureΒ 1: Waffle Plot