R ggplot2 - simple heatplot

simple heatplot

• load the library ggplot2, if you have not installed it yet - install it via install.packages("ggplot2")
• create the example data frame
• map it to the plot

x <- rep(1:20,20)
y <- rep(1:20, rep(20,20))
z <- rnorm(400, mean=0, sd=15)
df <- data.frame(x=x,y=y,z=z)
ggplot(df, aes(x=x,y=y, fill=z)) + geom_tile()

• now we can change the colors (colorchart) by add a scale_fill_gradient(low="green", high="red")

ggplot(df, aes(x=x,y=y, fill=z)) + geom_tile()+scale_fill_gradient(low="green", high="red")

• an a second one (with more soothing colors)

ggplot(df, aes(x=x,y=y, fill=z)) + geom_tile()+scale_fill_gradient(low="aliceblue", high="midnightblue")