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I want to create this kind of chart for my own data (also health indicators as in the example).

I found that in the page were the image was included]1 that they call this plot 'spine chart' , but, after a long search in Google, I couldn't find any other examples. Neither I could find any other names for this kind of plot.

So, any clue about how to name this chart and how to create it (preferable in R)?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

Spine charts like this can be created using the fingertipscharts package and the area_profiles() function.

Caveat: I'm not an expert in this package. I was looking for an answer to the same question.

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Taken from the fingertipscharts vignette

dfspine <- fingertips_data(DomainID = 1938133060, rank = TRUE) %>%
        filter(Timeperiod == "2016",
               Age == "All ages")

The argument rank = TRUE needs to be included as this returns a polarity field, which is needed for the spine chart.

p <- area_profiles(dfspine,
                   value = Value,
                   count = Count,
                   area_code = AreaCode,
                   local_area_code = "E06000020",
                   indicator = IndicatorName,
                   timeperiod = Timeperiod,
                   polarity = Polarity,
                   significance = ComparedtoEnglandvalueorpercentiles,
                   area_type = AreaType,
                   cols = "fingertips",
                   median_line_area_code = "E92000001",
                   comparator_area_code = "E12000005",
                   datatable = TRUE,
                   relative_domain_text_size = 0.75,
                   relative_text_size = 1.2,
                   bar_width = 0.68,
                   indicator_label_nudgex = -0.5)
p