--- title: "Plotting trait data" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Plotting trait data} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, fig.width = 7, fig.height = 5, fig.align = "center") ```
Many packages exist to visualize trait data for biological species. __deeptime__ similarly has a few novel ways to help you plot your data in useful ways. We'll first load some packages and example data so we can demonstrate some of this functionality. ```{r message = FALSE} # Load deeptime library(deeptime) # Load other packages library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) # Load dispRity for example data library(dispRity) data(demo_data) # Load paleotree for example data library(phytools) data(mammal.tree) data(mammal.data) ``` ## Plot disparity through time A common way to visualize trait data, especially for fossil species, is to show the two-dimensional trait distribution for several time intervals. This allows the viewer to easily compare the trait distribution through time. However, producing such a plot has historically been very time intensive, often involving the use of custom code and image editing software (e.g., [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/)). While a single function to accomplish such a visualization still does not exist for `{ggplot2}` (yet...), the `coord_trans_xy()` function can be used to generate a similar plot with sheared trait space across several time intervals. ```{r} # make transformer library(ggforce) trans <- linear_trans(shear(.75, 0)) # prepare data to be plotted crinoids <- as.data.frame(demo_data$wright$matrix[[1]][, 1:2]) crinoids$time <- "before extinction" crinoids$time[demo_data$wright$subsets$after$elements] <- "after extinction" # a box to outline the trait space square <- data.frame(V1 = c(-.6, -.6, .6, .6), V2 = c(-.4, .4, .4, -.4)) ggplot() + geom_segment( data = data.frame( x = -.6, y = seq(-.4, .4, .2), xend = .6, yend = seq(-0.4, .4, .2) ), aes(x = x, y = y, xend = xend, yend = yend), linetype = "dashed", color = "grey" ) + geom_segment( data = data.frame( x = seq(-.6, .6, .2), y = -.4, xend = seq(-.6, .6, .2), yend = .4 ), aes(x = x, y = y, xend = xend, yend = yend), linetype = "dashed", color = "grey" ) + geom_polygon(data = square, aes(x = V1, y = V2), fill = NA, color = "black") + geom_point(data = crinoids, aes(x = V1, y = V2), color = "black") + coord_trans_xy(trans = trans, expand = FALSE) + labs(x = "PCO1", y = "PCO2") + theme_classic() + facet_wrap(~time, ncol = 1, strip.position = "right") + theme(panel.spacing = unit(1, "lines"), panel.background = element_blank()) ``` ### Disparity in base R The `disparity_through_time()` function accomplishes nearly all of the work for you if you are comfortable plotting within the `{lattice}` framework (base R). Note that it may take some tweaking (especially the `aspect` argument) to get the results to look the way you want. ```{r, fig.height = 4} crinoids$time <- factor(crinoids$time) disparity_through_time(time ~ V2 * V1, data = crinoids, groups = time, aspect = c(1.5, .6), xlim = c(-.6, .6), ylim = c(-.5, .5), col.regions = "lightyellow", col.point = c("red", "blue"), par.settings = list( axis.line = list(col = "transparent"), layout.heights = list( top.padding = -20, main.key.padding = 0, key.axis.padding = 0, axis.xlab.padding = 0, xlab.key.padding = 0, key.sub.padding = 0, bottom.padding = -20 ), layout.widths = list( left.padding = -10, key.ylab.padding = 0, ylab.axis.padding = 0, axis.key.padding = 0, right.padding = 0 ) ) ) ``` ## Phylomorphospaces Often, trait data will be accompanied with a phylogeny. You may want to visualize both your phylogeny, the traits of your species, and the evolution of the trait along your phylogeny. To accomplish this, you can create a two-dimensional phylomorphospace. The `{phytools}` package has the `phytools::phylomorphospace()` function for accomplishing this in base R. The `geom_phylomorpho()` function in __deeptime__ will help you accomplish this with `ggplot()`. Note that labels can be added using `geom_label()` or `ggrepel::geom_label_repel()`, but they are not demonstrated here because they would obscure the phylogenetic relationships. ```{r message = FALSE, warning = FALSE} mammal.data$label <- rownames(mammal.data) ggplot(mammal.data, aes(x = bodyMass, y = homeRange, label = label)) + geom_phylomorpho(mammal.tree) + theme_classic() ```