rggplot2ggprotogeom

Building a new geom_hurricane


enter image description hereI have been meaning to create a new geom for a data set that has been tidied in the following form:

Katrina
# A tibble: 3 x 9
  storm_id     date                latitude longitude wind_speed    ne    se    sw    nw
  <chr>        <dttm>                 <dbl>     <dbl> <fct>      <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 KATRINA-2005 2005-08-29 12:00:00     29.5     -89.6 34           200   200   150   100
2 KATRINA-2005 2005-08-29 12:00:00     29.5     -89.6 50           120   120    75    75
3 KATRINA-2005 2005-08-29 12:00:00     29.5     -89.6 64            90    90    60    60

I first defined the class and then the actual geom function, however, my output plot turns out to be so miniaturized, So I would appreciate it if you could tell me where I possibly go wrong with the scales.

GeomHurricane <- ggplot2::ggproto("GeomHurricane", Geom, 
                         required_aes = c("x", "y",
                                          "r_ne", "r_se", "r_sw", "r_nw"
                                          ),
                         default_aes = aes(fill = 1, colour = 1, 
                                           alpha = 1, scale_radii = 1),
                         draw_key = draw_key_polygon,
                         
                         draw_group = function(data, panel_scales, coord) {
                           
                            coords <- coord$transform(data, panel_scales) %>%
                              mutate(r_ne = r_ne * 1852 * scale_radii, 
                                     r_se = r_se * 1852 * scale_radii, 
                                     r_sw = r_sw * 1852 * scale_radii,
                                     r_nw = r_nw * 1852 * scale_radii
                                                   )
                           
                           # Creating quadrants 
                           for(i in 1:nrow(data)) {
                             
                             # Creating the northeast quadrants
                             data_ne <- data.frame(colour = data[i,]$colour,
                               fill = data[i,]$fill,
                               geosphere::destPoint(p = c(data[i,]$x, data[i,]$y),
                                                    b = 1:90,
                                                    d = data[i,]$r_ne),
                               group = data[i,]$group,
                               PANEL = data[i,]$PANEL,
                               alpha = data[i,]$alpha
                             )
                             
                             # Creating the southeast quadrants
                             data_se <- data.frame(colour = data[i,]$colour, 
                               fill = data[i,]$fill,
                               geosphere::destPoint(p = c(data[i,]$x, data[i,]$y),
                                                    b = 90:180,
                                                    d = data[i,]$r_se),
                               group = data[i,]$group,
                               PANEL = data[i,]$PANEL,
                               alpha = data[i,]$alpha
                             )
                             
                             # Creating the southwest quadrants
                             data_sw <- data.frame(colour = data[i,]$colour, 
                               fill = data[i,]$fill,
                               geosphere::destPoint(p = c(data[i,]$x, data[i,]$y),
                                                    b = 180:270,
                                                    d = data[i,]$r_sw),
                               group = data[i,]$group,
                               PANEL = data[i,]$PANEL,
                               alpha = data[i,]$alpha
                             )
                             
                             # Creating the northwest quadrants
                             data_nw <- data.frame(colour = data[i,]$colour,
                               fill = data[i,]$fill, 
                               geosphere::destPoint(p = c(data[i,]$x, data[i,]$y),
                                                    b = 270:360,
                                                    d = data[i,]$r_nw),
                               group = data[i,]$group,
                               PANEL = data[i,]$PANEL,
                               alpha = data[i,]$alpha
                             )
                             
                             data_quadrants <- dplyr::bind_rows(list(
                               data_ne, data_se, data_sw, data_nw
                             )) 
                             
                             data_quadrants <- data_quadrants %>% dplyr::rename(
                               x = lon,
                               y = lat
                             )
                             
                             data_quadrants$colour <- as.character(data_quadrants$colour)
                             data_quadrants$fill <- as.character(data_quadrants$fill)
                             
                           }

                             coords_data <- coord$transform(data_quadrants, panel_scales)
                             
                             grid::polygonGrob(
                               x = coords_data$x,
                               y = coords_data$y,
                               default.units = "native", 
                               gp = grid::gpar(
                                 col = coords_data$colour, 
                                 fill = coords_data$fill,
                                 alpha = coords_data$alpha
                               )
                             )
                          }
)

and the actual geom function definition:

geom_hurricane <- function(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, stat = "identity",
                           position = "identity", na.rm = FALSE,
                           show.legend = NA, inherit.aes = TRUE, ...) {
  ggplot2::layer(
    geom = GeomHurricane, mapping = mapping,
    data = data, stat = stat, position = position,
    show.legend = show.legend, inherit.aes = inherit.aes,
    params = list(na.rm = na.rm, ...)
  )
}

So I went on to plot the following:

ggplot(data = Katrina) + 
  geom_hurricane(aes(x = longitude, y = latitude, 
                     r_ne = ne, r_se = se, r_sw = sw, r_nw = nw,
                     fill = wind_speed, colour = wind_speed)) + 
  scale_colour_manual(name = "Wind speed (kts)",
                      values = c("red", "orange", "yellow")) +
  scale_fill_manual(name = "Wind speed (kts)",
                    values = c("red", "orange", "yellow"))

The data for this purpose can be found here as Atlantic basin data set 1988 - 2018: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/research/tropical_cyclones/tc_extended_best_track_dataset/

For your consideration I used the following codes to tidy the data:

ext_tracks_widths <- c(7, 10, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3,
                       4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 6, 1)


ext_tracks_colnames <- c("storm_id", "storm_name", "month", "day",
                         "hour", "year", "latitude", "longitude",
                         "max_wind", "min_pressure", "rad_max_wind",
                         "eye_diameter", "pressure_1", "pressure_2",
                         paste("radius_34", c("ne", "se", "sw", "nw"), sep = "_"),
                         paste("radius_50", c("ne", "se", "sw", "nw"), sep = "_"),
                         paste("radius_64", c("ne", "se", "sw", "nw"), sep = "_"),
                         "storm_type", "distance_to_land", "final")

ext_tracks <- read_fwf("ebtrk_atlc_1988_2015.txt",
                       fwf_widths(ext_tracks_widths, ext_tracks_colnames), 
                       na = "-99")

storm_observation <- ext_tracks %>%
  unite("storm_id", c("storm_name", "year"), sep = "-", 
        na.rm = TRUE, remove = FALSE) %>%
  mutate(longitude = -longitude) %>%
  unite(date, year, month, day, hour) %>%
  mutate(date = ymd_h(date)) %>%
  select(storm_id, date, latitude, longitude, radius_34_ne:radius_64_nw) %>%
  pivot_longer(cols = contains("radius"), names_to = "wind_speed", 
               values_to = "value") %>%
  separate(wind_speed, c(NA, "wind_speed", "direction"), sep = "_") %>%
  pivot_wider(names_from = "direction", values_from = "value") %>%
  mutate(wind_speed = as.factor(wind_speed))


Katrina <- storm_observation %>%
  filter(storm_id == "KATRINA-2005", date == ymd_h("2005-08-29-12"))

Solution

  • Alright, there are 2 problems that I spotted. Problem 1 is that in your draw_group() ggproto method, you convert the radii from nautical miles to meters (I think), but you write this to the coords variable. However, you use the data variable to do the geosphere::destPoint calculation.

    Here is a version of that method that I think should work:

      draw_group = function(data, panel_scales, coord) {
    
        scale_radii <- if (is.null(data$scale_radii)) 1 else data$scale_radii
        data <- data %>%
          mutate(r_ne = r_ne * 1852 * scale_radii, 
                 r_se = r_se * 1852 * scale_radii, 
                 r_sw = r_sw * 1852 * scale_radii,
                 r_nw = r_nw * 1852 * scale_radii
          )
        
        # Creating quadrants 
        for(i in 1:nrow(data)) {
          
          # Creating the northeast quadrants
          data_ne <- data.frame(colour = data[i,]$colour,
                                fill = data[i,]$fill,
                                geosphere::destPoint(p = c(data[i,]$x, data[i,]$y),
                                                     b = 1:90, # Should this start at 0?
                                                     d = data[i,]$r_ne),
                                group = data[i,]$group,
                                PANEL = data[i,]$PANEL,
                                alpha = data[i,]$alpha
          )
          
          # Creating the southeast quadrants
          data_se <- data.frame(colour = data[i,]$colour, 
                                fill = data[i,]$fill,
                                geosphere::destPoint(p = c(data[i,]$x, data[i,]$y),
                                                     b = 90:180,
                                                     d = data[i,]$r_se),
                                group = data[i,]$group,
                                PANEL = data[i,]$PANEL,
                                alpha = data[i,]$alpha
          )
          
          # Creating the southwest quadrants
          data_sw <- data.frame(colour = data[i,]$colour, 
                                fill = data[i,]$fill,
                                geosphere::destPoint(p = c(data[i,]$x, data[i,]$y),
                                                     b = 180:270,
                                                     d = data[i,]$r_sw),
                                group = data[i,]$group,
                                PANEL = data[i,]$PANEL,
                                alpha = data[i,]$alpha
          )
          
          # Creating the northwest quadrants
          data_nw <- data.frame(colour = data[i,]$colour,
                                fill = data[i,]$fill, 
                                geosphere::destPoint(p = c(data[i,]$x, data[i,]$y),
                                                     b = 270:360,
                                                     d = data[i,]$r_nw),
                                group = data[i,]$group,
                                PANEL = data[i,]$PANEL,
                                alpha = data[i,]$alpha
          )
          
          data_quadrants <- dplyr::bind_rows(list(
            data_ne, data_se, data_sw, data_nw
          )) 
          
          data_quadrants <- data_quadrants %>% dplyr::rename(
            x = lon,
            y = lat
          )
          
          data_quadrants$colour <- as.character(data_quadrants$colour)
          data_quadrants$fill <- as.character(data_quadrants$fill)
          
        }
        
        coords_data <- coord$transform(data_quadrants, panel_scales)
        
        grid::polygonGrob(
          x = coords_data$x,
          y = coords_data$y,
          default.units = "native", 
          gp = grid::gpar(
            col = coords_data$colour, 
            fill = coords_data$fill,
            alpha = coords_data$alpha
          )
        )
      }
    

    The next problem is that you only define 1 x coordinate with the Katrina example. However, the scales don't know about your radius parameters, so they don't adjust the limits to fit your radii in. You can circumvent this by setting xmin, xmax, ymin and ymax bounding box parameters, so that scale_x_continuous() can learn about your radius. (Same thing for the y scale). I'd solve this by using a setup_data method to your ggproto object.

    Here is the setup data method that I used to test with, but I'm no spatial genius so you'd have to check if this makes sense.

      setup_data = function(data, params) {
    
        maxrad <- max(c(data$r_ne, data$r_se, data$r_sw, data$r_nw))
        maxrad <- maxrad * 1852
    
        x_range <- unique(range(data$x))
        y_range <- unique(range(data$y))
        xy <- as.matrix(expand.grid(x_range, y_range))
    
        extend <- lapply(c(0, 90, 180, 270), function(b) {
          geosphere::destPoint(p = xy,
                               b = b,
                               d = maxrad)
        })
        extend <- do.call(rbind, extend)
    
        transform(
          data,
          xmin = min(extend[, 1]),
          xmax = max(extend[, 1]),
          ymin = min(extend[, 2]),
          ymax = max(extend[, 2])
        )
      }
    

    After implenting these changes, I get a figure like this:

    enter image description here