Crafting and coloring area plots using geom_area() and more

Area plots are wild cards. They can properly represent either one or two variables. In economics for example, area plots are a very popular way to display government expenditures or a country importations versus exportation. When it comes to plotting single variable can be seen as alternatives to histograms.

This recipes is rescuing the data frame built by Recipe Creating a histogram with custom colors and bins width in order to demonstrate how to craft area plots with ggplot2, ggvis and plotly packages.

Getting ready

Once this recipe relies on simulations data frame created by Recipe Creating a histogram with custom colors and bins width make sure to have it into your environment or else obtain it by running that recipe. Code needed can be found at sections Getting Ready and How to do it... (first step only).

How to do it...

Both ggplot2, ggvis and plotly are able to draw area plots, although the last two require some computation to...