ggbrick

Create a ‘waffle’ style chart with the aesthetic of a brick wall.

Usage is similar to geom_col where you supply counts as the height of the bar. Each whole brick represents 1 unit. Two half bricks equal one whole brick. Where the count exceeds the number of brick layers, the number of bricks is scaled to retain the brick wall aesthetic.

Installation

Install from Git

devtools::install_github("doehm/ggbrick")

Simple example

library(ggplot2)
library(ggbrick)

d10 <- c("#788FCE", "#BD8184", "#E6956F", "#F2CC8F", "#A6BA96", "#C5E8E3", 
         "#F4F1DE", "#CDC3D4", "#A88AD2", "#60627C")

mpg |>
  count(class, drv) |>
  ggplot() +
  geom_brick(aes(class, n, fill = drv)) +
  scale_fill_manual(values = d10)

The fill can be randomised to create a different look with type = 'random' or type = 'soft_random'.

In this case each brick represents a car (a row) in mpg. When the number of bricks gets too large, the number of brick layers will be capped and the number of bricks will be scaled down. The proportions of the fill aesthetic will be held consistent. This can be adjusted with the brick_layers parameter.

mpg |>
  count(class, trans) |>
  mutate(n = 5*n) |>
  ggplot() +
  geom_brick(aes(class, n, fill = trans)) +
  scale_fill_manual(values = d10)

You can also adjust the number of bricks per layer with the bricks_per_layer parameter.

ggplot() +
  geom_brick(aes(x = 1, y = 96), fill = "firebrick", bricks_per_layer = 8)