Shape palette from Cleveland "Elements of Graphing Data" (discrete).

Shape palettes for overlapping and non-overlapping points.

Usage

cleveland_shape_pal(overlap = TRUE)

Arguments

overlap

logical Use the scale for overlapping points?

Note

In the Elements of Graphing Data, W.S. Cleveland suggests two shape palettes for scatter plots: one for overlapping data and another for non-overlapping data. The symbols for overlapping data relies on pattern discrimination, while the symbols for non-overlapping data vary the amount of fill. This palette attempts to create these palettes. However, I found that these were hard to replicate. Using the R shapes and unicode fonts: the symbols can vary in size, they are dependent of the fonts used, and there does not exist a unicode symbol for a circle with a vertical line. If someone can improve this palette, please let me know.

Following Tremmel (1995), I replace the circle with a vertical line with an encircled plus sign.

The palette cleveland_shape_pal() supports up to five values.

References

Cleveland WS. The Elements of Graphing Data. Revised Edition. Hobart Press, Summit, NJ, 1994, pp. 154-164, 234-239.

Tremmel, Lothar, (1995) "The Visual Separability of Plotting Symbols in Scatterplots", Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1390760

See also

Other shapes: circlefill_shape_pal(), scale_shape_circlefill(), scale_shape_cleveland(), scale_shape_tremmel(), tremmel_shape_pal()

Examples

###   (discrete).

if (FALSE) {
library("ggplot2")
p <- ggplot(mtcars) +
     geom_point(aes(x = wt, y = mpg, shape = factor(gear))) +
     facet_wrap(~am) +
     theme_bw()
# overlapping symbol palette
p + scale_shape_cleveland()
# non-overlapping symbol palette
p + scale_shape_cleveland(overlap = FALSE)
}