Scatter Pie plot

set.seed(123)
long <- rnorm(50, sd=100)
lat <- rnorm(50, sd=50)
d <- data.frame(long=long, lat=lat)
d <- with(d, d[abs(long) < 150 & abs(lat) < 70,])
n <- nrow(d)
d$region <- factor(1:n)
d$A <- abs(rnorm(n, sd=1))
d$B <- abs(rnorm(n, sd=2))
d$C <- abs(rnorm(n, sd=3))
d$D <- abs(rnorm(n, sd=4))
d[1, 4:7] <- d[1, 4:7] * 3
head(d)
##          long        lat region          A        B        C        D
## 1  -56.047565  12.665926      1 2.13121969 8.663359 3.928711 8.676792
## 2  -23.017749  -1.427338      2 0.25688371 1.403569 1.375096 4.945092
## 4    7.050839  68.430114      3 0.24669188 0.524395 3.189978 5.138863
## 5   12.928774 -11.288549      4 0.34754260 3.144288 3.789556 2.295894
## 8 -126.506123  29.230687      5 0.95161857 3.029335 1.048951 2.471943
## 9  -68.685285   6.192712      6 0.04502772 3.203072 2.596539 4.439393
ggplot() + geom_scatterpie(aes(x=long, y=lat, group=region), data=d,
                           cols=LETTERS[1:4]) + coord_equal()

d$radius <- 6 * abs(rnorm(n))
p <- ggplot() + geom_scatterpie(aes(x=long, y=lat, group=region, r=radius), data=d,
                                cols=LETTERS[1:4], color=NA) + coord_equal()
p + geom_scatterpie_legend(d$radius, x=-140, y=-70)

The geom_scatterpie is especially useful for visualizing data on a map.

world <- map_data('world')
p <- ggplot(world, aes(long, lat)) +
    geom_map(map=world, aes(map_id=region), fill=NA, color="black") +
    coord_quickmap()
p + geom_scatterpie(aes(x=long, y=lat, group=region, r=radius),
                    data=d, cols=LETTERS[1:4], color=NA, alpha=.8) +
    geom_scatterpie_legend(d$radius, x=-160, y=-55)

Session info

Here is the output of sessionInfo() on the system on which this document was compiled:

## R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
## Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
## Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
## 
## locale:
## [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  base     
## 
## other attached packages:
## [1] maps_3.1.1       scatterpie_0.0.2 ggplot2_2.2.0   
## 
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##  [1] Rcpp_0.12.8      knitr_1.15.1     magrittr_1.5     MASS_7.3-45     
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