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Annotating select points on an X-Y plot using ggplot2
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# for details see | |
# http://bayesball.blogspot.ca/2013/06/annotating-select-points-on-x-y-plot.html | |
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# load the ggplot2 and grid packages | |
library(ggplot2) | |
library(grid) | |
# read data (note csv files are renamed) | |
tbl1 = read.csv("FanGraphs_Leaderboard_h.csv") | |
tbl2 = read.csv("FanGraphs_Leaderboard_d.csv") | |
# create new table with data from both tbl1 and tbl2 by link on variable | |
# 'playerid' | |
outfield = data.frame(merge(tbl1, tbl2, by = "playerid")) | |
# clean up the variable names of the two Name fields | |
names(outfield)[2] = paste("Name") | |
names(outfield)[21] = paste("Name.y") | |
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qplot(UZR.150, wRAA, data = outfield) | |
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# create new MarinerNames field that contains only the name of Mariners | |
# players (plagarized from Winston Chang's R Graphics Cookbook Recipe 5.11) | |
outfield$MarinerNames = outfield$Name | |
idx = (outfield$Team.x == "Mariners") | |
outfield$MarinerNames[!idx] = NA | |
# create a new table, taking a subset that has only the Mariners players | |
Mariners = subset(outfield, Team.x == "Mariners") | |
# add the names of the UZR stars to outfield$Table2 sort the table by | |
# wRAA, then add the names of the top 4 wRAA stars | |
outfield$wRAAstars = outfield$Name | |
outfield = outfield[order(-outfield$wRAA), ] | |
outfield$wRAAstars[5:110] = NA | |
# sort the table by UZR.150, then copy the first 3 names | |
outfield$UZRstars = outfield$Name | |
outfield = outfield[order(-outfield$UZR.150), ] | |
outfield$UZRstars[4:110] = NA | |
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# the full ggplot verion, creating an object called "WARcht" | |
WARcht = ggplot(outfield, aes(x=UZR.150, y=wRAA)) + # | |
geom_point(colour="gray60", size=2.0) + # set the colour and size of the points | |
theme_bw() + # and use the "background white" theme | |
ggtitle("Everyday Outfielders, 2013 [to 2013-06-15]") # and put a title on the plot | |
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# start with WARcht, add geom_text() [for auto labels] and annotate() [for manual labels and arrows] | |
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WARcht + # print the chart object | |
geom_text(aes(label=MarinerNames), size=4, fontface="bold", colour="navyblue", | |
vjust=0, hjust=-0.1) + # add the names of the Mariners players | |
geom_text(aes(label=wRAAstars), size=3, fontface="bold", | |
vjust=0, hjust=-0.1) + # add the names of the top wRAA players | |
annotate("text", label="Shane Victorino", x=40, y=3, size=3, fontface="bold.italic") + # manually place the label for Shane Victorino | |
annotate("segment", x=50, y=2, xend=51.7, yend=-0.4, size=0.5, | |
arrow=arrow(length=unit(.2, "cm"))) + # manually place the Victorino arrow | |
annotate("text", label="Craig Gentry", x=40, y=-7.0, size=3, fontface="bold.italic") + | |
annotate("segment", x=42, y=-6.6, xend=40.9, yend=-4.0, size=0.5, | |
arrow=arrow(length=unit(.2, "cm"))) + | |
annotate("text", label="A.J. Pollock", x=49, y=-2.5, size=3, fontface="bold.italic") + | |
geom_point(data=Mariners, aes(x=UZR.150, y=wRAA), colour="navyblue", size=4) # over-plot the points for the Mariners players | |
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Hi,
When I try to run this, it errors out on line 59 with the following error:
Error in FUN(X[[i]], ...) : object 'wRAA' not found
Not sure if I downloaded the data incorrectly either. Sees to read the info in without issue.
Fairly new to R so apologies if I am missing something obvious.