regbar {rreg}

Barplot with explicit data comparison

Description

Create a barplot with the posibility to differentiate a specific item compared to the rest. This is useful in a situation when there is a need to show the total value as compared to each items in the x-axis. A specific example related to the Norwegian Health Registries is when the aggregated value from each health institutions or health regions is compared to the national data.

Usage

regbar(data, x, y, comp, num, aim = NULL, split = NULL, ascending = TRUE,
  title, ylab, col1, col2, col3, flip = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

data

Data set

x

x-axis

y

y-axis

comp

Compare a specific bar from the rest for a vivid comparison eg. National compared to the different districts

num

Include denominator i.e N in the figure eg. Tawau HF (N=2088)

aim

A line on y-axis indicating aim

split

Where to split inside and outside text eg. 10% of max as split=0.1

ascending

Sort data ascending order

title

Title for the plot

ylab

Label for y-axis

col1

Color for bars

col2

Color for the 'diff' bar

col3

Color for aim line

flip

Flip plot horizontally

...

Additional arguments

Examples

# basic usage
library("rreg")
regbar(data = hfdata, x = inst, y = case2)
regbar(hfdata, inst, case2, comp = "Tawau HF")
regbar(hfdata, inst, 2007, comp = "Taw", num = extt)

# split text visualisatio at 5% of max value
regbar(hfdata, inst, 2007, comp = "Taw", split = 0.05)