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correlation plots with ellipses
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# Correlation ellipses | |
doInstall <- TRUE # Change to FALSE if you don't want packages installed. | |
toInstall <- c("ellipse") | |
if(doInstall){install.packages(toInstall, repos = "http://cran.r-project.org")} | |
lapply(toInstall, library, character.only = TRUE) | |
# Function to plot colored correlation ellipses | |
correlationEllipses <- function(cor){ | |
require(ellipse) | |
ToRGB <- function(x){rgb(x[1]/255, x[2]/255, x[3]/255)} | |
C1 <- ToRGB(c(178, 24, 43)) | |
C2 <- ToRGB(c(214, 96, 77)) | |
C3 <- ToRGB(c(244, 165, 130)) | |
C4 <- ToRGB(c(253, 219, 199)) | |
C5 <- ToRGB(c(247, 247, 247)) | |
C6 <- ToRGB(c(209, 229, 240)) | |
C7 <- ToRGB(c(146, 197, 222)) | |
C8 <- ToRGB(c(67, 147, 195)) | |
C9 <- ToRGB(c(33, 102, 172)) | |
CustomPalette <- colorRampPalette(rev(c(C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9))) | |
ord <- order(cor[1, ]) | |
xc <- cor[ord, ord] | |
colors <- unlist(CustomPalette(100)) | |
plotcorr(xc, col=colors[xc * 50 + 50]) | |
} | |
# An example, using canned data: | |
correlationEllipses(cor(mtcars)) |
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