package to plot events and time between events in time series

Linn · April 12, 2021, 3:22pm

Hello R-studio community!

I am searching for a package that lets me plot my data like this:

(Taken from Karsai et al., 2018 and Cencetti et al., 2021)

Do you have any idea whether a package like this exists in R? I am not quite sure how to call these types of plots but they show events of a time series and the color indicates how much time between consecutive events passes (the darker, the quicker the succession of events).

Thank you for your replies in advance!

Linn

mara · April 12, 2021, 4:28pm

I always call these barcode plots (though I don't think that's an official name). You may see them more often as "rug plots" in the margins of other plots.

The blog post here uses this style (though not separated out into variables by colour), I would think you could adapt it by using facet_wrap() or similar:
https://pmbarks.com/2019/canada-temp-trends/
Example from post:

See also the source code for the function the post author made, cantemp_barcode() here:

github.com

patrickbarks/cantempr/blob/master/R/cantemp_barcode.R

#' Create a barcode plot from a time-series of temperature data
#'
#' Create a barcode plot from a time-series of temperature data.
#'
#' @param data A \code{data.frame} returned by \code{\link{cantemp_fetch}},
#'   subset to a single climate station
#' @param scale_col_low Color for low end of temperature gradient (see
#'   \code{\link[ggplot2]{scale_fill_gradient2}})
#' @param scale_col_mid Color for middle of temperature gradient (see
#'   \code{\link[ggplot2]{scale_fill_gradient2}})
#' @param scale_col_high Color for high end of temperature gradient (see
#'   \code{\link[ggplot2]{scale_fill_gradient2}})
#' @param scale_col_na Color for missing values of temperature (see
#'   \code{\link[ggplot2]{scale_fill_gradient2}})
#' @param scale_name Name to print above color scale
#' @param scale_breaks Number of breaks in color scale
#' @param scale_digits Number of digits in color scale temperature labels
#' @param x_breaks Breaks for the x-axis (see 'breaks' argument of
#'   \code{\link[ggplot2]{scale_x_continuous}})
#'

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Also possibly of interest:
https://twitter.com/duc_qn/status/1176526490709745664?s=20

system · May 3, 2021, 4:28pm

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