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How to enhance faceted pie charts labels in R?

Time:12-20

I have an energy dataframe for the share of different sources of energy for several years:

Year<-c("2016","2016","2016","2017","2017","2017","2018","2018","2018")
Source<-c("coal","hydro","solar","coal","hydro","solar","coal","hydro","solar")
Share<-c(0.5,0.25,0.25,0.4,0.15,0.45,0.7,0.1,0.2)
df<-cbind.data.frame(Year,Source,Share)

I am trying to plot the dataframe as faceted pie charts for the several years:


ggplot(df, aes(x=1, y=Share, fill=Source))  
  geom_bar(stat="identity", width=1,position="fill") 
  coord_polar("y", start=0)  
  geom_text(aes(label = paste0(round(Share*100), "%")),size=2) 
  labs(x = NULL, y = NULL, fill = NULL, title = "Energy Mix") 
  theme_classic()   theme(axis.line = element_blank(),
          axis.text = element_blank(),
          axis.ticks = element_blank(),
          plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, color = "#666666")) 
  facet_wrap(~Year)

and I get the following result: enter image description here

How can I put the labels outside of the pie slices and centered for their arches, and how can I also add black thin borders to the slices? I know pie charts are not readable, and that bar charts are a bit better, but I am trying to play a bit diverse in options.

Many thanks in advance

CodePudding user response:

Pie charts are basically stacked bar charts - thus you can apply the same rules. Comments in the code.

library(ggplot2)
Year<-c("2016","2016","2016","2017","2017","2017","2018","2018","2018")
Source<-c("coal","hydro","solar","coal","hydro","solar","coal","hydro","solar")
Share<-c(0.5,0.25,0.25,0.4,0.15,0.45,0.7,0.1,0.2)

## don't do that cbind stuff
df<-data.frame(Year,Source,Share)

ggplot(df, aes(x=1, y=Share, fill=Source))  
  ## geom_col is geom_bar(stat = "identity")(bit shorter)
  ## use color = black for the outline
  geom_col(width=1,position="fill", color = "black") 
  coord_polar("y", start=0)  
  ## the "radial" position is defined by x = play around with the values
  ## the position along the circumference is defined by y, akin to 
  ## centering labels in stacked bar charts - you can center the
  ## label with the position argument
  geom_text(aes(x = 1.7, label = paste0(round(Share*100), "%")), size=2, 
            position = position_stack(vjust = 0.5)) 
  labs(x = NULL, y = NULL, fill = NULL, title = "Energy Mix") 
  theme_classic()   theme(axis.line = element_blank(),
                          axis.text = element_blank(),
                          axis.ticks = element_blank(),
                          plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, color = "#666666")) 
  facet_wrap(~Year)

Created on 2021-12-19 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

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