How to plot area chart in R?
This recipe helps you plot area chart in R
Recipe Objective
How to plot area chart in R? An area chart is a type of line chart for representing the quantitative type of data. In an area chart, the area between the line is plotted, and the X-axis is filled with colour. Area charts are a good data visualization plot when we want to show a trend over time without showing the exact value of the data. This recipe demonstrates an example on an area chart.
Step 1 - Install necessary package and library
library(ggplot2)
Step 2 - Define a dataframe
Syntax for creating a area chart- ggplot(data, aes(x,y)+geom_area() where, data - input data aes(x,y) - the aes function - creates area chart from data to geom geom_area() - for creating a area chart
data <- data.frame(x_data=c(1:100),
y_data=cumsum(rnorm(100)))
Step 3 - Plot the area chart
ggplot(data,aes(x=x_data,y=y_data))+geom_area(fill="blue")
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