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Bivariate Mapping with ggplot2
https://github.com/chris-prener/biscale
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Bivariate Mapping with ggplot2
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/chris-prener/biscale
- Owner: chris-prener
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2019-04-23T13:44:21.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-04-20T14:08:20.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-10T06:12:11.281Z (7 months ago)
- Language: R
- Homepage: https://chris-prener.github.io/biscale/
- Size: 14.3 MB
- Stars: 119
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 12
- Open Issues: 8
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.Rmd
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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README
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output: github_document
---
```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>",
fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
out.width = "100%"
)
```
# biscale 
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`biscale` implements a set of functions for bivariate thematic mapping based on the [tutorial](https://timogrossenbacher.ch/2019/04/bivariate-maps-with-ggplot2-and-sf/) written by Timo Grossenbacher and Angelo Zehr as well as a set of bivariate mapping palettes, including Joshua Stevens' [classic color schemes](https://www.joshuastevens.net/cartography/make-a-bivariate-choropleth-map/).
In addition to support for two-by-two, three-by-three, and four-by-four maps, the package also supports a range of methods for calculating breaks for bivariate maps.
## What's New in v1.0.0?
### New Features
* `bi_class()` now accepts factors for one or both of the `x` and `y` variables, allowing more flexibility for how breaks are calculated. If you want finer grained control over your categories, calculate them ahead of time and then pass the factors on to `bi_class()`.
* `bi_pal()`, `bi_legend()`, `bi_scale_fill()`, and `bi_scale_color()` functions all support four-by-four bivariate maps when `dim = 4`. Note that the original five palettes do not support four-by-four mapping, but very close approximations (e.g. `DkBlue2` instead of `DkBlue`) are now provided in their place. The legacy palettes are all still included in the package.
* The number of built-in palettes has been greatly expanded!
* Palettes can now be flipped and rotated (or both!), so that each built-in palette can be displayed in four different configurations. This includes the built-in palettes and any custom palettes that are four-by-four or smaller. If you want to flip or rotate larger palettes, you should make those decisions while creating the palette itself.
* The workflow for allowing custom palettes has been overhauled to simply the process - users can provide a named vector for the `pal` arguments in the `bi_pal()`, `bi_legend()`, `bi_scale_fill()`, and `bi_scale_color()` functions. All of these functions will validate your input to ensure that it maps correctly.
* `bi_class()` can be used to calculate bivariate breaks for maps larger than four-by-four, though it will return a warning reminding you that these maps are hard to read and that `biscale` does not provide palettes for larger maps. Instead, you should provide a custom palette.
* `bi_class_breaks()` can be used with `bi_legend()` to facilitate optionally adding break values to your legends. Like `bi_class()`, this new function accepts both continuous and pre-made factors.
### Breaking Changes
* `R` version 3.4 is no longer supported - please use at least `R` version 3.5
* There is no default supplied for `bi_class()`'s `style` argument since `bi_class()` now accepts factors as well. Users that relied on the default behavior of `bi_class()` will now receive an error asking you to specify a `style` for calculating breaks.
### Deprecated Functions
* `bi_pal_manual()` now returns a warning that it has been deprecated and will be removed in a later release of `biscale` (planned for the end of 2022). Please update your workflows to use the new approach to generating custom palettes.
### Internal Improvements
* `sf` is now a suggested package instead of an imported package, and several dependencies have been removed in the process of re-factoring all of the code in `biscale`.
### Documentation Improvements
* Documentation updates have been made, including the addition of a number of new examples and vignettes. These include detailed articles on bivariate palettes, working with breaks and legends, and creating bivariate maps with raster data.
## What's New in the Development Version (v1.1.0.9000)?
*These require the development version to be installed using `remotes::install_github()`, described in the next section.*
### New Features
* The `bi_legend()` function now has a `base_family` argument, which can be paired with the suggested `showtext` package to display non-Latin characters. See the ["Options for Breaks and Legends" vignette](https://chris-prener.github.io/biscale/articles/breaks.html#using-non-latin-characters) for details on using this new feature.
## Installation
### Installing biscale
The easiest way to get `biscale` is to install it from CRAN:
```r
install.packages("biscale")
```
Alternatively, the development version of `biscale` can be accessed from GitHub with `remotes`:
```r
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("chris-prener/biscale")
```
### Installing Suggested Dependencies
Since the package does not directly use functions from `sf`, it is a suggested dependency rather than a required one. However, the most direct approach to using `biscale` is with `sf` objects, and we therefore recommend users install `sf`. Windows and macOS users should be able to install `sf` without significant issues unless they are building from source. Linux users will need to install several open source spatial libraries to get `sf` itself up and running.
The other suggested dependency that users may want to consider installing is `cowplot`. All of the examples in the package documentation utilize it to construct final map images that combine the map with the legend. Like `sf`, it is suggested because none of the functions in `biscale` call `cowplot` directly.
If you want to use them, you can either install these packages individually (faster) or install all of the suggested dependencies at once (slower, will also give you a number of other packages you may or may not want):
```r
## install just cowplot and sf
install.packages(c("cowplot", "sf"))
## install all suggested dependencies
install.packages("biscale", dependencies = TRUE)
```
## Usage
### Quick Overview
Creating bivariate plots in the style described by [Grossenbacher and Zehr](https://timogrossenbacher.ch/2019/04/bivariate-maps-with-ggplot2-and-sf/) requires a number of dependencies in addition to `biscale` - `ggplot2` for plotting and `sf` for working with spatial objects in `R`. We'll also use `cowplot` in these examples:
```r
# load dependencies
library(biscale)
library(ggplot2)
library(cowplot)
library(sf)
```
The `biscale` package comes with some sample data from St. Louis, MO that you can use to check out the bivariate mapping workflow. Our first step is to create our classes for bivariate mapping. `biscale` currently supports a both two-by-two and three-by-three tables of classes, created with the `bi_class()` function:
```r
# create classes
data <- bi_class(stl_race_income, x = pctWhite, y = medInc, style = "quantile", dim = 3)
```
The default method for calculating breaks is `"quantile"`, which will provide breaks at 33.33% and 66.66% percent (i.e. tercile breaks) for three-by-three palettes. Other options are `"equal"`, `"fisher"`, and `"jenks"`. These are specified with the optional `style` argument. The `dim` argument is used to adjust whether a two-by-two and three-by-three tables of classes is returned.
Once breaks are created, we can use `bi_scale_fill()` as part of our `ggplot()` call:
```r
# create map
map <- ggplot() +
geom_sf(data = data, mapping = aes(fill = bi_class), color = "white", size = 0.1, show.legend = FALSE) +
bi_scale_fill(pal = "GrPink", dim = 3) +
labs(
title = "Race and Income in St. Louis, MO",
subtitle = "Dark Blue (DkBlue) Palette"
) +
bi_theme()
```
There are a variety of other options for palettes. See the "Bivarite Palettes" vignette or `?bi_pal` for more details. The `bi_theme()` function applies a simple theme without distracting elements, which is preferable given the already elevated complexity of a bivariate map. We need to specify the dimensions of the palette for `bi_scale_fill()` as well.
To add a legend to our map, we need to create a second `ggplot` object. We can use `bi_legend()` to accomplish this, which allows us to easily specify the fill palette, the x and y axis labels, and their size along with the dimensions of the palette:
```r
legend <- bi_legend(pal = "GrPink",
dim = 3,
xlab = "Higher % White ",
ylab = "Higher Income ",
size = 8)
```
Note that [`plotmath`](https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/grDevices/html/plotmath.html) is used to draw the arrows since Unicode arrows are font dependent. This happens internally as part of `bi_legend()` - you don't need to include them in your `xlab` and `ylab` arguments!
With our legend drawn, we can then combine the legend and the map with `cowplot`. The values needed for this stage will be subject to experimentation depending on the shape of the map itself.
```r
# combine map with legend
finalPlot <- ggdraw() +
draw_plot(map, 0, 0, 1, 1) +
draw_plot(legend, 0.2, .65, 0.2, 0.2)
```
The completed map, created with the sample code in this README, looks like this:
## Contributor Code of Conduct
Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://chris-prener.github.io/biscale/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.html). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.