Area Chart

An area chart is really similar to a line chart, except that the area between the x axis and the line is filled in with color or shading. It represents the evolution of a numeric variable.


Example Color Themes

Example Fonts

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Show Code

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<!-- Include the CanvasXpress library in your HTML file -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.canvasxpress.org/dist/canvasXpress.css" type="text/css"/>
<script src="https://www.canvasxpress.org/canvasXpress.min.js"></script>


<!-- Create a canvas element for the chart with the desired dimensions -->
<div>
  <canvas id="canvasId" width="600" height="600"</canvas>
</div>


<!-- Create a script to initialize the chart -->
<script>

  <!-- Create the data for the graph -->
  var data = {
     "y" : {
        "data" : [
          [10,100,70,130,60]
        ],
        "smps" : ["S1","S2","S3","S4","S5"],
        "vars" : ["A"]
     }
  }
  
  
  <-- Create the configuration for the graph -->
  var config = {
     "colorScheme":"CanvasXpress",
     "graphOrientation":"vertical",
     "graphType":"Area",
     "lineType":"rect",
     "objectBorderColor":"false",
     "showLegend":"false",
     "showSampleNames":"true",
     "showTransition":"false",
     "smpLabelRotate":"90",
     "smpTitle":"time"
  }
  

  <!-- Call the CanvasXpress function to create the graph -->
  var cX = new CanvasXpress("canvasId", data, config);


</script>

library(canvasXpress)
y=read.table("https://www.canvasxpress.org/data/cX-area4-dat.txt", header=TRUE, sep="\t", quote="", row.names=1, fill=TRUE, check.names=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
canvasXpress(
  data=y,
  colorScheme="CanvasXpress",
  graphOrientation="vertical",
  graphType="Area",
  lineType="rect",
  objectBorderColor=FALSE,
  showLegend=FALSE,
  showSampleNames=TRUE,
  showTransition=FALSE,
  smpLabelRotate=90,
  smpTitle="time"
)