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

Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa Aa


Show Code

Tools

<!-- 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" : [
          [1,2],
          [3,5],
          [5,1],
          [2,3],
          [4,6],
          [6,7]
        ],
        "smps" : ["x","y"],
        "vars" : ["1","2","3","4","5","6"]
     },
     "z" : {
        "g" : ["a","a","a","b","b","b"]
     }
  }
  
  
  <-- Create the configuration for the graph -->
  var config = {
     "colorBy":"g",
     "colorScheme":"GGPlot",
     "graphType":"Scatter2D",
     "scatterType":"area",
     "theme":"GGPlot"
  }
  

  <!-- 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-scatterArea-dat.txt", header=TRUE, sep="\t", quote="", row.names=1, fill=TRUE, check.names=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
z=read.table("https://www.canvasxpress.org/data/cX-scatterArea-var.txt", header=TRUE, sep="\t", quote="", row.names=1, fill=TRUE, check.names=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
canvasXpress(
  data=y,
  varAnnot=z,
  colorBy="g",
  colorScheme="GGPlot",
  graphType="Scatter2D",
  scatterType="area",
  theme="GGPlot"
)
⇧