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how to produce plots like this in R

Dear all,

I am looking for the R package that I can use to produce this type of graphs:

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I know ggplot2 has probably this capability but I can not find a proper tutorial to do it. I would be grateful if somebody can introduce a tutorial of how to produce these types of graphs.

Thanks

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updated by gaelgarcia05 gaelgarcia05 • written by Javad Javad

That appears more as a bubble plot rather a dot plot. If you indeed need a dot plot, try this

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written by lakhujanivijay lakhujanivijay

@OP: it would help if you posted some example data.

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written by cpad0112 cpad0112

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Assuming you're analyzing single-cell RNA seq data, you can use the DotPlot function from Seurat:

DotPlot(object = pbmc, genes.plot = features.plot, plot.legend = TRUE)

thanks to https://satijalab.org/seurat/visualization_vignette.html

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written by jbalberge jbalberge

Sorry, but here should I normalise for number of cells in each group? I mean when the bigger circle shows higher number of cells

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written by Za Za

Please refer to dotplot function in clusterprofiler package: Look at Visualization of profile comparison section in https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/vignettes/clusterProfiler/inst/doc/clusterProfiler.html

screenshot from the webpage:

bubblechart

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written by cpad0112 cpad0112

Thanks a lot. It is a very good suggestion but the problem is that I need something that I have full control on the graph production. I need to factor the data and compare different data sets in a same figure. That is why I asked for a ggplot2 tutorial.

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written by Javad Javad

oh okay. Then probably, geom_dotplot function in ggplot might help you in plotting.

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written by cpad0112 cpad0112

Try ggplot2 bubble chart

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written by EagleEye EagleEye

This is from the Seurat DotPlot function, which is documented here:

https://github.com/satijalab/seurat/blob/master/R/plotting.R

Essentially, it is a ggplot geom_point plot.

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written by gaelgarcia05 gaelgarcia05

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