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nik
nik

Reputation: 2584

how to make a heatmap with concrete values

I have a data like this 

df<- structure(list(name = structure(c(2L, 12L, 1L, 16L, 14L, 10L, 
9L, 5L, 15L, 4L, 8L, 13L, 7L, 6L, 3L, 11L), .Label = c("All", 
"Bab", "boro", "bra", "charli", "delta", "few", "hora", "Howe", 
"ist", "kind", "Kiss", "myr", "No", "TT", "where"), class = "factor"), 
    value = c(1.251, -1.018, -1.074, -1.137, 1.018, 1.293, 1.022, 
    -1.008, 1.022, 1.252, -1.005, 1.694, -1.068, 1.396, 1.646, 
    1.016)), .Names = c("name", "value"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-16L))

which looks like below 

#     name  value
#1     Bab  1.251
#2    Kiss -1.018
#3     All -1.074
#4   where -1.137
#5      No  1.018
#6     ist  1.293
#7    Howe  1.022
#8  charli -1.008
#9      TT  1.022
#10    bra  1.252
#11   hora -1.005
#12    myr  1.694
#13    few -1.068
#14  delta  1.396
#15   boro  1.646
#16   kind  1.016

when I plot it 

ggplot(df, aes(x = 1,y = name, fill = value)) + 
  geom_tile() + 
  ylab("")

it plots it randomly

enter image description here

but I want to have the same order as I have in my data. I also want to make the ylim smaller but I could not do. I appreciate any suggestion

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (1)

AlexR
AlexR

Reputation: 2408

The problem is your name factor has its levels sortet alphabetically. What you want to do is reorder the levels of name. Do this before the plot:

df$name <- factor(df$name, levels = df$name)

This will print the values as-is from bottom to top. For top-to-bottom ordering, use

df$name <- factor(df$name, levels = rev(df$name))

finally, setting "ylim" doesn't really make sense here. You might want to decrease the height of the canvas (e.g. by changing the size of the Plots pane in RStudio).

Upvotes: 1

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