Message-ID: <1166b665-5708-497a-9ab0-c9bf216946c2@psyctc.org>
Date: 2023-10-06T09:09:20Z
From: Chris Evans
Subject: Is it possible to get a downward pointing solid triangle plotting symbol in R?
The reason I am asking is that I would like to mark areas on a plot
using geom_polygon() and aes(fill = variable) to fill various polygons
forming the background of a plot with different colours. Then I would
like to overlay that with points representing direction of change:
improved, no reliable change, deteriorated. The obvious symbols to use
for those three directions are an upward arrow, a circle or square and a
downward pointing arrow.? There is a solid upward point triangle symbol
in R (ph = 17) and there are both upward and downward pointing open
triangle symbols (pch 21 and 25) but to fill those with a solid colour
so they will be visible over the background requires that I use a fill
aesthetic and that gets me a mess with the legend as I will have used a
different fill mapping to fill the polygons.? This silly reprex shows
the issue I think.
library(tidyverse)
tibble(x = 2:9, y = 2:9, c = c(rep("A", 5), rep("B", 3))) -> tmpTibPoints
tibble(x = c(1, 5, 5, 1), y = c(1, 1, 5, 5), a = rep("a", 4)) -> tmpTibArea1
tibble(x = c(5, 10, 10, 5), y = c(1, 1, 5, 5), a = rep("b", 4)) ->
tmpTibArea2
tibble(x = c(1, 5, 5, 1), y = c(5, 5, 10, 10), a = rep("c", 4)) ->
tmpTibArea3
tibble(x = c(5, 10, 10, 5), y = c(5, 5, 10, 10), a = rep("d", 4)) ->
tmpTibArea4
bind_rows(tmpTibArea1,
????????? tmpTibArea2,
????????? tmpTibArea3,
????????? tmpTibArea4) -> tmpTibAreas
ggplot(data = tmpTib,
?????? aes(x = x, y = y)) +
? geom_polygon(data = tmpTibAreas,
?????????????? aes(x = x, y = y, fill = a)) +
? geom_point(data = tmpTibPoints,
???????????? aes(x = x, y = y, fill = c),
???????????? pch = 24,
???????????? size = 6)
Does anyone know a way to create a solid downward pointing symbol?? Or
another workaround?
TIA,
Chris
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Chris Evans (he/him)
Visiting Professor, UDLA, Quito, Ecuador & Honorary Professor,
University of Roehampton, London, UK.
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