I want to create a plot in R with ggplot()
to visualise the data included in variable matrix
that looks like this:
matrix <- matrix(c(time =c(1,2,3,4,5),v1=rnorm(5),v2=c(NA,1,0.5,0,0.1)),nrow=5)
colnames(matrix) <- c("time","v1","v2")
df <-data.frame(
time=rep(matrix[,1],2),
values=c(matrix[,2],matrix[,3]),
names=rep(c("v1","v2"), each=length(matrix[,1]))
)
ggplot(df, aes(x=time,y=values,color=names)) +
geom_point()+
facet_grid(names~.)
Is there a faster way than transforming the data in a data.frame like I do? This way seems to be very laborious.. I would appreciate every help!! Thanks in advance.
A tidyverse approach:
This will produce the data structure you need to use in ggplot
library(tidyverse)
matrix %>%
as_data_frame() %>%
gather(., names, value, -time)
This will generate data structure and plot all at once
matrix %>%
as_data_frame() %>%
gather(., names, value, -time) %>%
ggplot(., aes(x=time,y=value,color=names)) +
geom_point()+
facet_grid(names~.)