This post
explains how to build a correlogram with
the ggally
R package. It provides several reproducible
examples with explanation and R
code.
ggpairs()
The ggpairs()
function of the GGally
package allows to build a great scatterplot
matrix.
Scatterplots of each pair of numeric variable are drawn on the left part of the figure. Pearson correlation is displayed on the right. Variable distribution is available on the diagonal.
ggcorr()
The ggcorr()
function allows to visualize the
correlation of each pair of variable as a square. Note that the
method
argument allows to pick the correlation type you
desire.
It is possible to use ggplot2 aesthetics on the chart, for instance to color each category.
upper
and lower
argument.
# Quick display of two cabapilities of GGally, to assess the distribution and correlation of variables
library(GGally)
# From the help page:
data(tips, package = "reshape")
ggpairs(
tips[, c(1, 3, 4, 2)],
upper = list(continuous = "density", combo = "box_no_facet"),
lower = list(continuous = "points", combo = "dot_no_facet")
)