gglikert {JWileymisc}

Creates a plot for likert scale

Description

Creates a plot for likert scale

Usage

gglikert(
  x,
  y,
  leftLab,
  rightLab,
  colour,
  data,
  xlim,
  title,
  shape = 18,
  size = 7
)

Arguments

x

Variable to plot on the x axis (the likert scale responses or averages)

y

The variable containing an index of the different items, should be integers

leftLab

The variable with anchors for the low end of the Likert scale

rightLab

The variable with anchors for the high end of the Likert scale

colour

A character string giving the name of a variable for colouring the data, like a grouping variable. Alternately the colour of points passed to geom_point

data

The data to use for plotting

xlim

A vector giving the lower an upper limit for the x axis. This should be the possible range of the Likert scale, not the actual range.

title

A character vector giving the title for the plot

shape

A number indicating the point shape, passed to geom_point

size

A number indicating the size of points, passed to geom_point

Examples

library(JWileymisc)
library(ggplot2)
library(ggpubr)
testdat <- data.table::data.table(
  Var = 1:4,
  Mean = c(1.5, 3, 2.2, 4.6),
  Low = c("Happy", "Peaceful", "Excited", "Content"),
  High = c("Sad", "Angry", "Hopeless", "Anxious"))

gglikert("Mean", "Var", "Low", "High", data = testdat, xlim = c(1, 5),
  title = "Example Plot of Average Affect Ratings")

testdat <- rbind(
  cbind(testdat, Group = "Young"),
  cbind(testdat, Group = "Old"))
testdat$Mean[5:8] <- c(1.7, 2.6, 2.0, 4.4)

gglikert("Mean", "Var", "Low", "High", colour = "Group",
  data = testdat, xlim = c(1, 5),
  title = "Example Plot of Average Affect Ratings")

gglikert("Mean", "Var", "Low", "High", colour = "Group",
  data = testdat, xlim = c(1, 5),
  title = "Example Plot of Average Affect Ratings") +
ggplot2::scale_colour_manual(values = c("Young" = "grey50", "Old" = "black"))

## clean up
rm(testdat)