R Data Visualisation Example: simple dot plot

R Data Viz Example using R Base function

Create a demo dataset to be used for a plot.

# Sample data
set.seed(3)
sold <- sample(200:500, 12)
sold

##  [1] 460 385 339 235 499 475 382 367 247 303 335 236

month <- month.name
month

##  [1] "January"   "February"  "March"     "April"     "May"       "June"     
##  [7] "July"      "August"    "September" "October"   "November"  "December"

quarter <- c(rep(1, 3), rep(2, 3),
             rep(3, 3), rep(4, 3))
quarter

##  [1] 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4

# Sample dataSet
df <- data.frame(sold, month,quarter)
df

##    sold     month quarter
## 1   460   January       1
## 2   385  February       1
## 3   339     March       1
## 4   235     April       2
## 5   499       May       2
## 6   475      June       2
## 7   382      July       3
## 8   367    August       3
## 9   247 September       3
## 10  303   October       4
## 11  335  November       4
## 12  236  December       4

Basic dot plot with dotchart function

dotchart(sold)

# dotchart with customization
dotchart(sold,
         pch = 19,             # Symbol
         col = hcl.colors(12), # Colors
         pt.cex = 1.5,         # Symbol size
         frame.plot = TRUE)    # Plot frame 

# dotchart with customization with Labels
dotchart(sold,
         pch = 19,
         col = 4,
         pt.cex = 1.5,
         frame.plot = TRUE,
         labels = month)