geom_lolli {RmarineHeatWaves}

Visualise a Timeline of Several Event Metrics as 'Lollipops'.

Description

The function will return a graph of the intensity of the selected metric along the *y*-axis versus a time variable along the *x*-axis. The number of top events (n) from the chosen metric may be highlighted in a brighter colour with the aesthetic value colour.n. This function differs in use from lolli_plot in that it must be created as a ggplot2 'geom' object. The benefit of this being that one may add additional information layer by layer to the figure as geoms as necessary.

Usage

geom_lolli(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, ..., n = 1, na.rm = FALSE,
  show.legend = NA, inherit.aes = TRUE)

Arguments

mapping

Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes() or aes_(). If specified and inherit.aes = TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.

data

The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:

If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the call to ggplot().

A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be created.

A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data.

...

other arguments passed on to layer. These are often aesthetics, used to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, like color = "red" or size = 3. They may also be parameters to the paired geom/stat.

n

The number of top events to highlight. Default is 1. This parameter has no effect if colour.n is set to NA outside of aes().

na.rm

If FALSE (the default), removes missing values with a warning. If TRUE silently removes missing values.

show.legend

Logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.

inherit.aes

If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them. This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and shouldn't inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

Aesthetics

geom_lolli understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x

• y

• alpha

• color

• linetype

• size

• shape

• stroke

• fill

• colour.n: While this value may be used as an aesthetic, it also works as a parameter for this function. If one chooses not to highlight any events, use colour.n = NA outside of aes(). One may also provide a non-static value to colour.na but remember that one may not provide multiple continuous or discrete scales to a single ggplot2 object. Therefore, if one provides a continuous value to aes(colour), the values supplied to colour.n must be discrete. ggplot2 will attempt to do this automatically.

Author(s)

Robert W. Schlegel

See Also

lolli_plot for a non-geom based lolliplot function.

Examples

ts_dat <- make_whole(sst_NW_Atl)
# with defaults:
res <- detect(ts_dat, climatology_start = "1983-01-01",
              climatology_end = "2012-12-31")
mhw <- res$event

## Not run: 
require(lubridate)
# Height of lollis represent event durations and their colours
# are mapped to the events' cumulative intensity:
ggplot(mhw, aes(x = mhw$date_peak, y = mhw$duration)) +
  geom_lolli(n = 0, shape = 20, aes(colour = mhw$int_cum), colour.n = NA) +
  scale_color_distiller(palette = "Spectral", name = "Cumulative \nintensity") +
  xlab("Date") + ylab("Event duration [days]")

# Height of lollis represent event durations and the top three (longest)
# lollis are highlighted in red:
ggplot(mhw, aes(x = mhw$date_peak, y = mhw$duration)) +
  geom_lolli(n = 3, shape = 20, colour.n = "red") +
  scale_color_distiller(palette = "Spectral", name = "Cumulative \nintensity") +
  xlab("Date") + ylab("Event duration [days]")

## End(Not run)