Line chart with smoothed conditional mean

By Data Tricks, 6 August 2018

• Charts
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Create data and set-up theme

library(ggplot2)
library(reshape2)
library(dplyr)
set.seed(575)
data <- data.frame(Month = rep(1:100, each=1, times=3))
data$Add <- sample(-10:15, 300, replace=TRUE)
data$Category <- rep(1:3, each=100, time=1)
data <- data %>%
group_by(Category) %>%
mutate(Value=cumsum(Add))
theme <- theme(panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
axis.line.x = element_line(color="#919191", size = 0.1),
axis.line.y = element_line(color="#919191", size = 0.1))

Line chart with smoothed conditional mean

#Multiple line chart with smoothed conditional mean
data$Category <- as.character(data$Category) # convert the Category to a character
gg <- ggplot(data, aes(x=Month, y=Value, colour=Category))
gg <- gg + geom_point()
gg <- gg + geom_smooth(alpha=0.3, method="loess", span=0.2)
gg <- gg + theme
print(gg)

The span attribute controls the amount of smoothing for the default loess smoother. Smaller numbers produce wigglier lines, larger numbers produce smoother lines. Changing span to 5 in the above example produces the following chart.

Tags: geom_smooth, ggplot2, line chart

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