Plotting contours
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Plenty of packages allow you to plot contours of a “z” value; however, I wanted to be able to plot a specific density contour of a sample from a bivariate distribution over a plot that was a function of the x and y parameters. The example only plots the density of x and y; however, if you set plot.dens=FALSE, the contours will be added to the active display device (i.e., over an image(x,y,function(x,y){…})).
This function also lets you specify the line widths and types for each of the contours.
########################################### ## drawcontour.R ## Written by J.D. Forester, 17 March 2008 ########################################### ##This function draws an approximate density contour based on ##empirical, bivariate data. ##change testit to FALSE if sourcing the file testit=TRUE draw.contour<-function(a,alpha=0.95,plot.dens=FALSE, line.width=2, line.type=1, limits=NULL, density.res=300,spline.smooth=-1,...){ ##a is a list or matrix of x and y coordinates (e.g., a=list("x"=rnorm(100),"y"=rnorm(100))) ## if a is a list or dataframe, the components must be labeled "x" and "y" ## if a is a matrix, the first column is assumed to be x, the second y ##alpha is the contour level desired ##if plot.dens==TRUE, then the joint density of x and y are plotted, ## otherwise the contour is added to the current plot. ##density.res controls the resolution of the density plot ##A key assumption of this function is that very little probability mass lies outside the limits of ## the x and y values in "a". This is likely reasonable if the number of observations in a is large. require(MASS) require(ks) if(length(line.width)!=length(alpha)){ line.width <- rep(line.width[1],length(alpha)) } if(length(line.type)!=length(alpha)){ line.type <- rep(line.type[1],length(alpha)) } if(is.matrix(a)){ a=list("x"=a[,1],"y"=a[,2]) } ##generate approximate density values if(is.null(limits)){ limits=c(range(a$x),range(a$y)) } f1<-kde2d(a$x,a$y,n=density.res,lims=limits) ##plot empirical density if(plot.dens) image(f1,...) if(is.null(dev.list())){ ##ensure that there is a window in which to draw the contour plot(a,type="n",xlim=limits[1:2],ylim=limits[3:4],...) } ##estimate critical contour value ## assume that density outside of plot is very small zdens <- rev(sort(f1$z)) Czdens <- cumsum(zdens) Czdens <- (Czdens/Czdens[length(zdens)]) for(cont.level in 1:length(alpha)){ ##This loop allows for multiple contour levels crit.val <- zdens[max(which(Czdens<=alpha[cont.level]))] ##determine coordinates of critical contour b.full=contourLines(f1,levels=crit.val) for(c in 1:length(b.full)){ ##This loop is used in case the density is multimodal or if the desired contour ## extends outside the plotting region b=list("x"=as.vector(unlist(b.full[[c]][2])),"y"=as.vector(unlist(b.full[[c]][3]))) ##plot desired contour line.dat<-xspline(b,shape=spline.smooth,open=TRUE,draw=FALSE) lines(line.dat,lty=line.type[cont.level],lwd=line.width[cont.level]) } } } ############################## ##Test the function ############################## ##generate data if(testit){ n=10000 a<-list("x"=rnorm(n,400,100),"y"=rweibull(n,2,100)) draw.contour(a=a,alpha=c(0.95,0.5,0.05),line.width=c(2,1,2),line.type=c(1,2,1),plot.dens=TRUE, xlab="X", ylab="Y") }
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