I would like to speak out against the conventional way of making pies in ggplot2, which is to draw a stacked barplot in polar coordinates. While I appreciate the mathematical elegance of that approach, it does cause all sorts of headaches when the plot doesn't look quite the way it's supposed to. In particular, precisely adjusting the size of the pie can be difficult. (If you don't know what I mean, try to make a pie chart that extends all the way to the edge of the plot panel.)
I prefer drawing pies in a normal cartesian coordinate system, using geom_arc_bar() from ggforce. It requires a little bit of extra work on the front end, because we have to calculate angles ourselves, but that's easy and the level of control we get as a result is more than worth it.
I've used this approach in previous answers here and here.
The data (from the question):
dat = read.table(text = "Channel Volume Cnt
AGENT high 8344
AGENT medium 5448
AGENT low 23823
KIOSK high 19275
KIOSK medium 13554
KIOSK low 38293", header=TRUE)
The pie-drawing code:
library(ggplot2)
library(ggforce)
library(dplyr)
# calculate the start and end angles for each pie
dat_pies <- left_join(dat,
dat %>%
group_by(Channel) %>%
summarize(Cnt_total = sum(Cnt))) %>%
group_by(Channel) %>%
mutate(end_angle = 2*pi*cumsum(Cnt)/Cnt_total, # ending angle for each pie slice
start_angle = lag(end_angle, default = 0), # starting angle for each pie slice
mid_angle = 0.5*(start_angle + end_angle)) # middle of each pie slice, for the text label
rpie = 1 # pie radius
rlabel = 0.6 * rpie # radius of the labels; a number slightly larger than 0.5 seems to work better,
# but 0.5 would place it exactly in the middle as the question asks for.
# draw the pies
ggplot(dat_pies) +
geom_arc_bar(aes(x0 = 0, y0 = 0, r0 = 0, r = rpie,
start = start_angle, end = end_angle, fill = Volume)) +
geom_text(aes(x = rlabel*sin(mid_angle), y = rlabel*cos(mid_angle), label = Cnt),
hjust = 0.5, vjust = 0.5) +
coord_fixed() +
scale_x_continuous(limits = c(-1, 1), name = "", breaks = NULL, labels = NULL) +
scale_y_continuous(limits = c(-1, 1), name = "", breaks = NULL, labels = NULL) +
facet_grid(Channel~.)
To show why I think this this approach is so much more powerful than the conventional (coord_polar()) approach, let's say we want the labels on the outside of the pie rather than inside. This creates a couple of problems, such as we will have to adjust hjust and vjust depending on the side of the pie a label falls, and also we will have to make the
plot panel wider than high to make space for the labels on the side without generating excessive space above and below. Solving these problems in the polar coordinate approach is not fun, but it's trivial in the cartesian coordinates:
# generate hjust and vjust settings depending on the quadrant into which each
# label falls
dat_pies <- mutate(dat_pies,
hjust = ifelse(mid_angle>pi, 1, 0),
vjust = ifelse(mid_angle<pi/2 | mid_angle>3*pi/2, 0, 1))
rlabel = 1.05 * rpie # now we place labels outside of the pies
ggplot(dat_pies) +
geom_arc_bar(aes(x0 = 0, y0 = 0, r0 = 0, r = rpie,
start = start_angle, end = end_angle, fill = Volume)) +
geom_text(aes(x = rlabel*sin(mid_angle), y = rlabel*cos(mid_angle), label = Cnt,
hjust = hjust, vjust = vjust)) +
coord_fixed() +
scale_x_continuous(limits = c(-1.5, 1.4), name = "", breaks = NULL, labels = NULL) +
scale_y_continuous(limits = c(-1, 1), name = "", breaks = NULL, labels = NULL) +
facet_grid(Channel~.)
