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geom_polygon

Polygon, a filled path.

Description

Polygon, a filled path.

Usage

geom_polygon(
  mapping = NULL,
  data = NULL,
  stat = "identity",
  position = "identity",
  ...,
  na.rm = FALSE,
  show.legend = NA,
  inherit.aes = TRUE
)

Arguments

mapping

Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes or aes_. If specified and inherit.aes = TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.
data

The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:

If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the call to ggplot.

A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify for which variables will be created.

A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return value must be a data.frame., and will be used as the layer data.
stat

The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, as a string.
position

Position adjustment, either as a string, or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
...

other arguments passed on to layer. These are often aesthetics, used to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, like color = "red" or size = 3. They may also be parameters to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm

If FALSE (the default), removes missing values with a warning. If TRUE silently removes missing values.
show.legend

logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes.
inherit.aes

If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them. This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and shouldn't inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders.

Aesthetics

geom_polygonunderstands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

  • x

  • y

  • alpha

  • colour

  • fill

  • linetype

  • size

See Also

geom_path for an unfilled polygon, geom_ribbon for a polygon anchored on the x-axis

Examples

# When using geom_polygon, you will typically need two data frames:
# one contains the coordinates of each polygon (positions),  and the
# other the values associated with each polygon (values).  An id
# variable links the two together

ids <- factor(c("1.1", "2.1", "1.2", "2.2", "1.3", "2.3"))

values <- data.frame(
  id = ids,
  value = c(3, 3.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.15, 3.5)
)

positions <- data.frame(
  id = rep(ids, each = 4),
  x = c(2, 1, 1.1, 2.2, 1, 0, 0.3, 1.1, 2.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.5, 1.1, 0.3,
  0.5, 1.2, 2.5, 1.2, 1.3, 2.7, 1.2, 0.5, 0.6, 1.3),
  y = c(-0.5, 0, 1, 0.5, 0, 0.5, 1.5, 1, 0.5, 1, 2.1, 1.7, 1, 1.5,
  2.2, 2.1, 1.7, 2.1, 3.2, 2.8, 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 3.2)
)

# Currently we need to manually merge the two together
datapoly <- merge(values, positions, by = c("id"))

(p <- ggplot(datapoly, aes(x = x, y = y)) + geom_polygon(aes(fill = value, group = id)))

# Which seems like a lot of work, but then it's easy to add on
# other features in this coordinate system, e.g.:

stream <- data.frame(
  x = cumsum(runif(50, max = 0.1)),
  y = cumsum(runif(50,max = 0.1))
)

p + geom_line(data = stream, colour = "grey30", size = 5)

# And if the positions are in longitude and latitude, you can use
# coord_map to produce different map projections.
animint2

Animated Interactive Grammar of Graphics

v2020.9.18
GPL-3
Authors
Toby Hocking [aut, cre] (Original animint code), Hadley Wickham [aut] (Forked ggplot2 code), Winston Chang [aut] (Forked ggplot2 code), RStudio [cph] (Forked ggplot2 code), Nicholas Lewin-Koh [aut] (hexGrob), Martin Maechler [aut] (hexGrob), Randall Prium [aut] (cut_width), Susan VanderPlas [aut] (Animint GSOC 2013), Carson Sievert [aut] (Animint GSOC 2014), Kevin Ferris [aut] (Animint GSOC 2015), Jun Cai [aut] (Animint GSOC 2015), Faizan Khan [aut] (Animint GSOC 2016-2017), Vivek Kumar [aut] (Animint GSOC 2018), Himanshu Singh [aut] (Animint2 GSoC 2020)
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