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R - Pie Charts

The document provides an overview of creating pie charts using the R programming language, detailing the syntax and parameters of the pie() function. It includes examples of generating basic pie charts, enhancing them with titles and colors, and adding slice percentages and legends. Additionally, it introduces the plotrix package for creating 3D pie charts with the pie3D() function.

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R - Pie Charts

The document provides an overview of creating pie charts using the R programming language, detailing the syntax and parameters of the pie() function. It includes examples of generating basic pie charts, enhancing them with titles and colors, and adding slice percentages and legends. Additionally, it introduces the plotrix package for creating 3D pie charts with the pie3D() function.

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R - Pie Charts

R Programming language has numerous libraries to create charts and graphs. A pie-chart
is a representation of values as slices of a circle with different colors. The slices are labeled
and the numbers corresponding to each slice is also represented in the chart.

In R the pie chart is created using the pie() function which takes positive numbers as a
vector input. The additional parameters are used to control labels, color, title etc.

Syntax
The basic syntax for creating a pie-chart using the R is −

pie(x, labels, radius, main, col, clockwise)

Following is the description of the parameters used −

x is a vector containing the numeric values used in the pie chart.

labels is used to give description to the slices.

radius indicates the radius of the circle of the pie chart.(value between −1 and
+1).

main indicates the title of the chart.

col indicates the color palette.

clockwise is a logical value indicating if the slices are drawn clockwise or anti
clockwise.

Example
A very simple pie-chart is created using just the input vector and labels. The below script
will create and save the pie chart in the current R working directory.

# Create data for the graph.


Live Demo
x <- c(21, 62, 10, 53)
labels <- c("London", "New York", "Singapore", "Mumbai")

# Give the chart file a name.


png(file = "city.png")

# Plot the chart.


pie(x,labels)

# Save the file.


dev.off()

When we execute the above code, it produces the following result −

Pie Chart Title and Colors


We can expand the features of the chart by adding more parameters to the function. We
will use parameter main to add a title to the chart and another parameter is col which will
make use of rainbow colour pallet while drawing the chart. The length of the pallet should
be same as the number of values we have for the chart. Hence we use length(x).

Example
The below script will create and save the pie chart in the current R working directory.

# Create data for the graph.


Live Demo
x <- c(21, 62, 10, 53)
labels <- c("London", "New York", "Singapore", "Mumbai")

# Give the chart file a name.


png(file = "city_title_colours.jpg")

# Plot the chart with title and rainbow color pallet.


pie(x, labels, main = "City pie chart", col = rainbow(length(x)))

# Save the file.


dev.off()

When we execute the above code, it produces the following result −

Slice Percentages and Chart Legend


We can add slice percentage and a chart legend by creating additional chart variables.

# Create data for the graph.


Live Demo
x <- c(21, 62, 10,53)
labels <- c("London","New York","Singapore","Mumbai")

piepercent<- round(100*x/sum(x), 1)

# Give the chart file a name.


png(file = "city_percentage_legends.jpg")

# Plot the chart.


pie(x, labels = piepercent, main = "City pie chart",col = rainbow(length(x)))
legend("topright", c("London","New York","Singapore","Mumbai"), cex = 0.8,
fill = rainbow(length(x)))
# Save the file.
dev.off()

When we execute the above code, it produces the following result −

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3D Pie Chart
A pie chart with 3 dimensions can be drawn using additional packages. The package
plotrix has a function called pie3D() that is used for this.

# Get the library.


library(plotrix)

# Create data for the graph.


x <- c(21, 62, 10,53)
lbl <- c("London","New York","Singapore","Mumbai")

# Give the chart file a name.


png(file = "3d_pie_chart.jpg")

# Plot the chart.


pie3D(x,labels = lbl,explode = 0.1, main = "Pie Chart of Countries ")
# Save the file.
dev.off()

When we execute the above code, it produces the following result −

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