Zipf_plot() : How to compare two objects in one graph?

Question

I'm trying to use the Zipf_plot function from the tm package to compare two different document-term-matrices - and I'm not an R expert .. Maybe you could tell me, if there's a way to fit both in this function?

Zipf_plot(x, type = "l", ... )

I know, there's a possibility to get both (or more) of them in one window:

par(mfrow=c())

but I'd really appreciate a solution with two or more dtms in one graph.

Thanks in advance! :-)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '17 at 11:57

You could try par(new=T) or try to adjust the function according to your needs, e.g.:

library(tm)
data("acq")
data("crude")
m1 <- DocumentTermMatrix(acq)
m2 <- DocumentTermMatrix(crude)
Zipf_plot(m1, col = "red")
par(new=T)
Zipf_plot(m2, col="blue")
Zipf_plot_multi <- function (xx, type = "l", cols = rainbow(length(xx)), ...) {
    stopifnot(is.list(xx) & length(xx)==length(cols))
    for (idx in seq_along(xx)) {
      x <- xx[[idx]]
      if (inherits(x, "TermDocumentMatrix")) 
          x <- t(x)
      y <- log(sort(slam::col_sums(x), decreasing = TRUE))
      x <- log(seq_along(y))
      m <- lm(y ~ x)
      dots <- list(...)
      if (is.null(dots$xlab)) 
          dots$xlab <- "log(rank)"
      if (is.null(dots$ylab)) 
          dots$ylab <- "log(frequency)"
      if (idx==1) {
        do.call(plot, c(list(x, y, type = type, col = cols[idx]), dots))
      } else {
        lines(x, y, col = cols[idx])
      }
      abline(m, col = cols[idx], lty = "dotted")
      print(coef(m))
    }
}
Zipf_plot_multi(list(m1, m2), xlim=c(0, 7), ylim=c(0,6))

Nice! Thank you! That function is exactly what I've been looking for! :-) — Bay, May 10 '17 at 12:16

Zipf_plot() : How to compare two objects in one graph?

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