R help - Jul 2011 - ggplot2 help/suggestions needed

Hello,

I have written a version of the Kohenen Self Organizing Map (in R) and wish
to use ggplot2 for the visualization. My results are RGB values in a matrix
[x,y,1:3] where x and y comprise the first two dimensions and the third
dimension is the RGB vector.

I am not sure whether to use geom_tile or geom_hex as there really is no
binning at the finest granularity. For testing, the matrix is 100, 100, 3 in
size. What approach would you suggest?

TIA,
DrX

Dear Bruce,

It's doable with ggplot2, but image() is probably a better solution.

To use ggplot2, you will need to convert your array into a data.frame where each
row has the information for one cell (x, y and colour)

library(ggplot2)
#create some dummy data
dataset <- expand.grid(x = seq_len(10), y = seq_len(10))
dataset$r <- rescale(dataset$x)
dataset$g <- rescale(dataset$y)
dataset$b <- rescale(dataset$x - dataset$y)

#create the colour information
dataset$colour <- with(dataset, rgb(r, g, b))
dataset$fColour <- factor(dataset$colour)

#the plot
ggplot(dataset, aes(x = x, y = y, fill = fColour)) + geom_tile() +
scale_fill_manual(values = levels(dataset$fColour))


Best regards,

Thierry

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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at
r-project.org]
> Namens Bruce Rex
> Verzonden: donderdag 28 juli 2011 20:42
> Aan: r-help at r-project.org
> Onderwerp: [R] ggplot2 help/suggestions needed
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have written a version of the Kohenen Self Organizing Map (in R) and wish
to
> use ggplot2 for the visualization. My results are RGB values in a matrix
[x,y,1:3]
> where x and y comprise the first two dimensions and the third dimension is
the
> RGB vector.
> 
> I am not sure whether to use geom_tile or geom_hex as there really is no
> binning at the finest granularity. For testing, the matrix is 100, 100, 3
in size.
> What approach would you suggest?
> 
> TIA,
> DrX
> 
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