I am actually not sure what this type of graph is called. It represents percentages by frequencies of differently coloured pictograms, similar to the one in the link. Is there a package in R that can produce similar graphs?
http://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/twitter100_550.gif
A bar chart would be the equivalent to this plot - available in the base package.
You can try one of these two:
http://www.r-bloggers.com/easy-pictograms-using-r/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27401806/wanted-repeated-pictogram-visualization-of-population-split
In the second link you'll find something very similar to the image you posted.
This might also be something that will help you https://github.com/joelkuiper/personograph
Thank you William. So what I was looking for is officially called a 'personograph' or 'Kuiper-Marshall plot'.
Yes, it is so called 'Waffle chart'. 1) You can use {ggplot2} library : Code R script for Waffle chart to model distribution (in %) of th...
the picture will be like this: https://github.com/paulinelemenkova/37-R-Waffle-Chart/blob/master/Waffle-Steepness-lib-ggplot2.pdf2. you can use {waffle} library, specially designed for such plots: Code R script to plot Waffle chart showing distribution of the as...
this is the resulting picture: https://github.com/paulinelemenkova/37-R-Waffle-Chart/blob/master/Waffles-two-together-lib-waffle.pdf- Badges
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