Constructing a waterfall plot in R
The waterfall plots or staircase plots are observed mostly in financial reports. I have not come across a nonfinancial application of these plots. The first and last columns of the plot are usually a total column and the floating columns indicate the incremental change. In this recipe, we generate some fake data of sales figures for every month.
Getting ready
In order to generate a waterfall plot, we will need to install and load the plotrix package in R.
How to do it…
The data for the same is imported in R using the read.csv() function. If we view the data, it begins with a total from last year's sales and we have ...
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