Google Tree Map with R treemap gvisTreeMap

The gvisTreeMap function reads a data.frame and creates text output referring to the Google Visualisation API, which can be included into a web page, or as a stand-alone page. The actual chart is rendered by the web browser.

Usage

gvisTreeMap(
  data,
  idvar = "",
  parentvar = "",
  sizevar = "",
  colorvar = "",
  options = list(),
  chartid
)

Arguments

data

a data.frame. The data has to have at least four columns. Each row in the data table describes one node (a rectangle in the graph). Each node (except the root node) has one or more parent nodes. Each node is sized and colored according to its values relative to the other nodes currently shown.

idvar

column name of data describing the ID for each node. It can be any valid JavaScript string, including spaces, and any length that a string can hold. This value is displayed as the node header.

parentvar

column name of data that match to entries in idvar. If this is a root node, leave this NA. Only one root is allowed per treemap.

sizevar

column name of data with positive values to define the size of maps. Any positive value is allowed. This value determines the size of the node, computed relative to all other nodes currently shown. This value is ignored for non-leaf nodes (it is actually calculated from the size of all its children).

colorvar

column name of data with values to define range of color. The value is used to calculate a color for this node. Any value, positive or negative, is allowed. The color value is first recomputed on a scale from minColorValue to maxColorValue, and then the node is assigned a color from the gradient between minColor and maxColor.

options

list of configuration options, see:

https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/treemap#Configuration_Options

The parameters can be set via a named list. The parameters have to map those of the Google documentation.

Boolean arguments are set to either TRUE or FALSE, using the R syntax.
Google API parameters with a single value and with names that don't include a "." are set like one would do in R, that is options=list(width=200, height=300). Exceptions to this rule are the width and height options for gvisAnnotatedTimeLine and gvisAnnotationChart. For those two functions, width and height must be character strings of the format "Xpx", where X is a number, or "automatic". For example, options=list(width="200px", height="300px").
Google API parameters with names that don't include a ".", but require multivalues are set as a character, wrapped in "[ ]" and separated by commas, e.g. options=list(colors="['#cbb69d', '#603913', '#c69c6e']")
Google API parameters with names that do include a "." present parameters with several sub-options and have to be set as a character wrapped in "{ }". The values of those sub-options are set via parameter:value. Boolean values have to be stated as 'true' or 'false'. For example the Google documentaion states the formating options for the vertical axis and states the parameter as vAxis.format. Then this paramter can be set in R as:options=list(vAxis="\{format:'#,###%'\}").
If several sub-options have to be set, e.g. titleTextStyle.color, titleTextStyle.fontName and titleTextStyle.fontSize, then those can be combined in one list item such as:options=list(titleTextStyle="\{color:'red', fontName:'Courier', fontSize:16\}")
parameters that can have more than one value per sub-options are wrapped in "[ ]". For example to set the labels for left and right axes use:options=list(vAxes="[\{title:'val1'\}, \{title:'val2'\}]")
gvis.editor a character label for an on-page button that opens an in-page dialog box enabling users to edit, change and customise the chart. By default no value is given and therefore no button is displayed.

For more details see the Google API documentation and the R examples below.

chartid

character. If missing (default) a random chart id will be generated based on chart type and tempfile

Value

gvisTreeMap returns list of class "gvis" and "list". An object of class "gvis" is a list containing at least the following components:

type

Google visualisation type

chartid

character id of the chart object. Unique chart ids are required to place several charts on the same page.

html

a list with the building blocks for a page

header

a character string of a html page header: <html>...<body>,

chart

a named character vector of the chart's building blocks:

jsHeader: Opening <script> tag and reference to Google's JavaScript library.
jsData: JavaScript function defining the input data as a JSON object.
jsDrawChart: JavaScript function combing the data with the visualisation API and user options.
jsDisplayChart: JavaScript function calling the handler to display the chart.
jsFooter: End tag </script>.
jsChart: Call of the jsDisplayChart function.
divChart: <div> container to embed the chart into the page.

caption

character string of a standard caption, including data name and chart id.

footer

character string of a html page footer: </body>...</html>, including the used R and googleVis version and link to Google's Terms of Use.

Details

A tree map is a visual representation of a data tree, where each node can have zero or more children, and one parent (except for the root, which has no parents). Each node is displayed as a rectangle, sized and colored according to values that you assign. Sizes and colors are valued relative to all other nodes in the graph. You can specify how many levels to display simultaneously, and optionally to display deeper levels in a hinted fashion. If a node is a leaf node, you can specify a size and color; if it is not a leaf, it will be displayed as a bounding box for leaf nodes. The default behavior is to move down the tree when a user left-clicks a node, and to move back up the tree when a user right-clicks the graph.

The total size of the graph is determined by the size of the containing element that you insert in your page. If you have leaf nodes with names too long to show, the name will be truncated with an ellipsis (...).

Warning

Tree maps display a tree like structure where every child has to have a unique parent.

Values in column sizevar should be greater than zero and finite.

References

Google Chart Tools API: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/treemap

Author

Markus Gesmann markus.gesmann@gmail.com,

Diego de Castillo decastillo@gmail.com

Examples


## Please note that by default the googleVis plot command
## will open a browser window and requires Internet
## connection to display the visualisation.

Tree <- gvisTreeMap(Regions,  idvar="Region", parentvar="Parent",
                    sizevar="Val", colorvar="Fac")
plot(Tree)


Tree2 <- gvisTreeMap(Regions,  "Region", "Parent", "Val", "Fac",
                    options=list(width=600, height=500,
                                 fontSize=16,
                                 minColor='#EDF8FB',
                                 midColor='#66C2A4',
                                 maxColor='#006D2C',
                                 headerHeight=20,
                                 fontColor='black',
                                 showScale=TRUE))

plot(Tree2)

## Simple static treemap with no drill down options based on US states
## and their area. However we still have to create a parent id to use
## gvisTreeMap
 
require(datasets)
states <- data.frame(state.name, state.area)

## Create parent variable

total=data.frame(state.area=sum(states$state.area), state.name="USA")

my.states <- rbind(total, states)
my.states$parent="USA"
## Set parent variable to NA at root level
my.states$parent[my.states$state.name=="USA"] <- NA

my.states$state.area.log=log(my.states$state.area)
statesTree <- gvisTreeMap(my.states, "state.name", "parent",
                          "state.area", "state.area.log")
plot(statesTree)


## We add US regions to the above data set to enable drill down capabilities

states2 <- data.frame(state.region, state.name, state.area)

regions <- aggregate(list(region.area=states2$state.area),
                     list(region=state.region), sum)

my.states2 <- data.frame(regionid=c("USA",
                                    as.character(regions$region),
                                    as.character(states2$state.name)),
                         parentid=c(NA, rep("USA", 4),
                                   as.character(states2$state.region)),
                         state.area=c(sum(states2$state.area),
                                      regions$region.area, states2$state.area))

my.states2$state.area.log=log(my.states2$state.area)

statesTree2 <- gvisTreeMap(my.states2, "regionid", "parentid",
                           "state.area", "state.area.log")

plot(statesTree2)

## Now we add another layer with US divisions

states3 <- data.frame(state.region, state.division, state.name, state.area)

regions <- aggregate(list(region.area=states3$state.area),
                     list(region=state.region), sum)

divisions <- aggregate(list(division.area=states3$state.area),
                     list(division=state.division, region=state.region),
                     sum)

my.states3 <- data.frame(regionid=c("USA",
                                    as.character(regions$region),
                                    as.character(divisions$division),
                                    as.character(states3$state.name)),
                         parentid=c(NA, rep("USA", 4), 
                                   as.character(divisions$region),
                                   as.character(states3$state.division)),
                         state.area=c(sum(states3$state.area),
                                      regions$region.area,
                                      divisions$division.area,
                                      states3$state.area))

my.states3$state.area.log=log(my.states3$state.area)

statesTree3 <- gvisTreeMap(my.states3, "regionid", "parentid",
                           "state.area", "state.area.log")

plot(statesTree3)