作者：严涛浙江大学作物遗传育种在读研究生（生物信息学方向）伪码农，R语言爱好者，爱开源。
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简介
ggridges。主要包用来绘制山峦图产品尤其的英文针对时间或者空间分布****可视化。具有十分好的效果ggridges主要提供两个几何图像函数：
geom_ridgeline（）：主要放置山脊线图
geom_density_ridges（）：主要布局密度山脊线图
具体用法可以参考官方文档：
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggridges/vignettes/introduction.html
geom_ridgeline（）
library(ggridges)
library(tidyverse)
# grid.arrange来自于gridExtra包，可以同时拼图多个ggplot2对象
library(gridExtra)
my_data <- data.frame(x=1:5, y=rep(1,5), height=c(0,1,-1,3,2))
plot_base <- ggplot(my_data, aes(x, y, height=height))
# 默认负值不显示，除非指定min_height参数
grid.arrange(plot_base+geom_ridgeline(),
plot_base+geom_ridgeline(min_height=-2), ncol=2)
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geom_density_ridges（）
geom_density_ridges（）函数首先会根据数据计算密度然后绘制，此时美学映射height没有必要编写函数中。下面使用lincoln_weather数据集。
# creates a vector of n equally spaced colors along the
# Matplolib 'viridis' color map
# also designed to be perceived by readers with the most common form of color blindness
# scale_fill_viridis函数来源于此包，
# 其参数 option用于设置颜色 "magma" (or "A"), "inferno" (or "B"), "plasma" (or "C"),
and "viridis" (or "D", the default option).
# ?viridis可以查看其具体含义
library(viridis)
head(lincoln_weather[ ,1:4])
## # A tibble: 6 x 4
## CST `Max Temperature [F]` `Mean Temperature [F]` `Min Temperature ~
##
## 1 2016-1-1 37 24 11
## 2 2016-1-2 41 23 5
## 3 2016-1-3 37 23 8
## 4 2016-1-4 30 17 4
## 5 2016-1-5 38 29 19
## 6 2016-1-6 34 33 32
# x后的值用 ` (反引号)括起，是因为列名字中存在空格和特殊字符，需要特殊对待
# fill = ..x..， double dots是ggplot2的一种特殊识别符，用来区分定义的和计算的美学参数
# 这里指用横轴的数据着色
ggplot(lincoln_weather, aes(x=`Mean Temperature [F]`, y=`Month`, fill=..x..))+
geom_density_ridges_gradient(scale=3, rel_min_height=0.01, gradient_lwd = 1.)+
scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0.01, 0))+ # 扩展下横轴和纵轴
scale_y_discrete(expand = c(0.01,0))+
scale_fill_viridis(name="Temp. [F]", option = "C")+
labs(title="Temperature in Lincoln NE",
subtitle="Mean temperature (Fahrenheit) by month for 2016\nData:Orogin CSV from the Weather Underground ")+
theme_ridges(font_size = 13, grid = FALSE)+
theme(axis.title.y = element_blank())
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环尺度
为了使ggridges 重新呈现的图形可视化效果最好，同时为了减少用户对颜色设置的困难，作者提供了循环比例尺作为颜色轮转映射。
ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=price, y=cut, fill=cut))+
geom_density_ridges(scale=4)+
scale_fill_cyclical(values = c("blue", "green"))+
theme_ridges(grid = FALSE)
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默认的，周期性尺度为了防止误解是不安排图例的，但是可以通过选项guide="legend"添加图例。
ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=price, y=cut, fill=cut))+
geom_density_ridges(scale=4)+
scale_fill_cyclical(values = c("blue", "green"), guide="legend",
labels=c("Fair"="blue", "Good"="green"),
name="Fill colors")+
theme_ridges(grid = FALSE)
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跟ggplot2一样，图例是可以修改的，其他参数尺寸大小，宽度，形状等都是可以通过循环刻度进行修改。
ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=price, y=cut, fill=cut))+
geom_density_ridges(scale=4)+
scale_fill_cyclical(values = c("blue", "green"), guide="legend")+
theme_ridges(grid = FALSE)
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再来2个示例
不做解释了，如果想重现就把代码拆解开，按需修改。一句句话单独拆开运行，理解其操作内容。
library(dplyr)
library(forcats)
Catalan_elections %>%
mutate(YearFct = fct_rev(as.factor(Year))) %>%
ggplot(aes(y = YearFct)) +
geom_density_ridges(
aes(x = Percent, fill = paste(YearFct, Option)),
alpha = .8, color = "white", from = 0, to = 100
) +
labs(
x = "Vote (%)",
y = "Election Year",
title = "Indy vs Unionist vote in Catalan elections",
subtitle = "Analysis unit: municipalities (n = 949)",
caption = "Marc Belzunces (@marcbeldata) | Source: Idescat"
) +
scale_y_discrete(expand = c(0.01, 0)) +
scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0.01, 0)) +
scale_fill_cyclical(
breaks = c("1980 Indy", "1980 Unionist"),
labels = c(`1980 Indy` = "Indy", `1980 Unionist` = "Unionist"),
values = c("#ff0000", "#0000ff", "#ff8080", "#8080ff"),
name = "Option", guide = "legend"
) +
theme_ridges(grid = FALSE)
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library(DAAG) # for ais dataset
ais$sport <- factor(
ais$sport,
levels = c("B_Ball", "Field", "Gym", "Netball", "Row", "Swim", "T_400m", "T_Sprnt", "Tennis", "W_Polo"),
labels = c("Basketball", "Field", "Gym", "Netball", "Row", "Swim", "Track 400m", "Track Sprint", "Tennis", "Water Polo")
)
ggplot(ais, aes(x=ht, y=sport, color=sex, point_color=sex, fill=sex)) +
geom_density_ridges(
jittered_points=TRUE, scale = .95, rel_min_height = .01,
point_shape = "|", point_size = 3, size = 0.25,
position = position_points_jitter(height = 0)
) +
scale_y_discrete(expand = c(.01, 0)) +
scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0, 0), name = "height [cm]") +
scale_fill_manual(values = c("#D55E0050", "#0072B250"), labels = c("female", "male")) +
scale_color_manual(values = c("#D55E00", "#0072B2"), guide = "none") +
scale_discrete_manual("point_color", values = c("#D55E00", "#0072B2"), guide = "none") +
guides(fill = guide_legend(
override.aes = list(
fill = c("#D55E00A0", "#0072B2A0"),
color = NA, point_color = NA))
) +
ggtitle("Height in Australian athletes") +
theme_ridges(center = TRUE)
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还有很多用法有兴趣的可以查看官方文档https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggridges/vignettes/introduction.html和https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages /ggridges/vignettes/gallery.html）继续学习。
那你知道单细胞基因表达中这个图怎么画了吗？
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如果不知道，可能你需要来参加单细胞转录组的课程了！！！