Customizing ggbiplot with GeomBag Function in R for Visualizing High-Dimensional Data

Based on the provided code and explanation, here’s a step-by-step solution to your problem:

Step 1: Install required libraries

To use the ggplot2 and ggproto libraries, you need to install them first. You can do this by running the following commands in your R console:

install.packages("ggplot2")
install.packages("ggproto")

Step 2: Load required libraries

Once installed, load the libraries in your R console with the following command:

library(ggplot2)
library(ggproto)

Step 3: Define the stat_bag function

Create a new StatBag function as shown in the provided code:

stat_bag <- function(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, geom = "polygon",
                     position = "identity", na.rm = FALSE, show.legend = NA,
                     inherit.aes = TRUE, prop = 0.5, alpha = 0.3, ...) {
  layer(
    stat = StatBag, data = data, mapping = mapping, geom = geom,
    position = position, show.legend = show.legend, inherit.aes = inherit.aes,
    params = list(na.rm = na.rm, prop = prop, alpha = alpha, ...)
  )
}

Step 4: Define the GeomBag function

Create a new GeomBag function as shown in the provided code:

geom_bag <- function(mapping = NULL, data = NULL,
                     stat = "identity", position = "identity",
                     prop = 0.5, 
                     alpha = 0.3,
                     ...,
                     na.rm = FALSE,
                     show.legend = NA,
                     inherit.aes = TRUE) {
  layer(
    data = data,
    mapping = mapping,
    stat = StatBag,
    geom = GeomBag,
    position = position,
    show.legend = show.legend,
    inherit.aes = inherit.aes,
    params = list(
      na.rm = na.rm,
      alpha = alpha,
      prop = prop,
      ...
    )
  )
}

Step 5: Use the geom_bag function in ggbiplot

Use the geom_bag function to create a polygon that encloses all points as shown in the provided code:

library(ggplot2)
library(ggproto)

data(wine)
wine.pca <- prcomp(wine, scale = TRUE)

ggplot(wine.pca$auc, aes(x = x, y = y)) + 
  geom_bag(aes(group = wine.class, fill = wine.class), prop = 1) +
  theme(legend.position = "bottom") +
  labs(fill = "Class")

This code creates a ggbiplot with a polygon that encloses all points in the wine.pca$auc dataframe. The prop parameter is set to 1, indicating that we want to draw a polygon that encloses all points.

Note: This code assumes that you have already loaded the ggplot2 and ggproto libraries and installed the required packages (ggplot2 and ggproto).


Last modified on 2024-01-23