Using R and ggplot2 for data art.



R and ggplot2 are awesome tool to produce random shapes. Welcome in the field of generative coding or data art.

ggplot2 Section About line chart

set.seed(345)
library(ggplot2)
library(RColorBrewer)
ngroup=30
names=paste("G_",seq(1,ngroup),sep="")
DAT=data.frame()

for(i in seq(1:30)){
    data=data.frame( matrix(0, ngroup , 3))
    data[,1]=i
    data[,2]=sample(names, nrow(data))
    data[,3]=prop.table(sample( c(rep(0,100),c(1:ngroup)) ,nrow(data)))
    DAT=rbind(DAT,data)
    }
colnames(DAT)=c("Year","Group","Value")
DAT=DAT[order( DAT$Year, DAT$Group) , ]


coul = brewer.pal(12, "Paired") 
coul = colorRampPalette(coul)(ngroup)
coul=coul[sample(c(1:length(coul)) , size=length(coul) ) ]

ggplot(DAT, aes(x=Year, y=Value, fill=Group )) + 
    geom_area(alpha=1  )+
    theme_bw() +
    #scale_fill_brewer(colour="red", breaks=rev(levels(DAT$Group)))+
    scale_fill_manual(values = coul)+
     theme(
        text = element_blank(),
        line = element_blank(),
        title = element_blank(),
        legend.position="none",
        panel.border = element_blank(),
        panel.background = element_blank())

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