#' Plot feature importance as a bar graph #' #' Represents previously calculated feature importance as a bar graph. #' \code{xgb.plot.importance} uses base R graphics, while \code{xgb.ggplot.importance} uses the ggplot backend. #' #' @param importance_matrix a \code{data.table} returned by \code{\link{xgb.importance}}. #' @param top_n maximal number of top features to include into the plot. #' @param measure the name of importance measure to plot. #' When \code{NULL}, 'Gain' would be used for trees and 'Weight' would be used for gblinear. #' @param rel_to_first whether importance values should be represented as relative to the highest ranked feature. #' See Details. #' @param left_margin (base R barplot) allows to adjust the left margin size to fit feature names. #' When it is NULL, the existing \code{par('mar')} is used. #' @param cex (base R barplot) passed as \code{cex.names} parameter to \code{barplot}. #' @param plot (base R barplot) whether a barplot should be produced. #' If FALSE, only a data.table is returned. #' @param n_clusters (ggplot only) a \code{numeric} vector containing the min and the max range #' of the possible number of clusters of bars. #' @param ... other parameters passed to \code{barplot} (except horiz, border, cex.names, names.arg, and las). #' #' @details #' The graph represents each feature as a horizontal bar of length proportional to the importance of a feature. #' Features are shown ranked in a decreasing importance order. #' It works for importances from both \code{gblinear} and \code{gbtree} models. #' #' When \code{rel_to_first = FALSE}, the values would be plotted as they were in \code{importance_matrix}. #' For gbtree model, that would mean being normalized to the total of 1 #' ("what is feature's importance contribution relative to the whole model?"). #' For linear models, \code{rel_to_first = FALSE} would show actual values of the coefficients. #' Setting \code{rel_to_first = TRUE} allows to see the picture from the perspective of #' "what is feature's importance contribution relative to the most important feature?" #' #' The ggplot-backend method also performs 1-D clustering of the importance values, #' with bar colors corresponding to different clusters that have somewhat similar importance values. #' #' @return #' The \code{xgb.plot.importance} function creates a \code{barplot} (when \code{plot=TRUE}) #' and silently returns a processed data.table with \code{n_top} features sorted by importance. #' #' The \code{xgb.ggplot.importance} function returns a ggplot graph which could be customized afterwards. #' E.g., to change the title of the graph, add \code{+ ggtitle("A GRAPH NAME")} to the result. #' #' @seealso #' \code{\link[graphics]{barplot}}. #' #' @examples #' data(agaricus.train) #' #' bst <- xgboost(data = agaricus.train$data, label = agaricus.train$label, max_depth = 3, #' eta = 1, nthread = 2, nrounds = 2, objective = "binary:logistic") #' #' importance_matrix <- xgb.importance(colnames(agaricus.train$data), model = bst) #' #' xgb.plot.importance(importance_matrix, rel_to_first = TRUE, xlab = "Relative importance") #' #' (gg <- xgb.ggplot.importance(importance_matrix, measure = "Frequency", rel_to_first = TRUE)) #' gg + ggplot2::ylab("Frequency") #' #' @rdname xgb.plot.importance #' @export xgb.plot.importance <- function(importance_matrix = NULL, top_n = NULL, measure = NULL, rel_to_first = FALSE, left_margin = 10, cex = NULL, plot = TRUE, ...) { check.deprecation(...) if (!is.data.table(importance_matrix)) { stop("importance_matrix: must be a data.table") } imp_names <- colnames(importance_matrix) if (is.null(measure)) { if (all(c("Feature", "Gain") %in% imp_names)) { measure <- "Gain" } else if (all(c("Feature", "Weight") %in% imp_names)) { measure <- "Weight" } else { stop("Importance matrix column names are not as expected!") } } else { if (!measure %in% imp_names) stop("Invalid `measure`") if (!"Feature" %in% imp_names) stop("Importance matrix column names are not as expected!") } # also aggregate, just in case when the values were not yet summed up by feature importance_matrix <- importance_matrix[, Importance := sum(get(measure)), by = Feature] # make sure it's ordered importance_matrix <- importance_matrix[order(-abs(Importance))] if (!is.null(top_n)) { top_n <- min(top_n, nrow(importance_matrix)) importance_matrix <- head(importance_matrix, top_n) } if (rel_to_first) { importance_matrix[, Importance := Importance / max(abs(Importance))] } if (is.null(cex)) { cex <- 2.5 / log2(1 + nrow(importance_matrix)) } if (plot) { original_mar <- par()$mar # reset margins so this function doesn't have side effects on.exit({par(mar = original_mar)}) mar <- original_mar if (!is.null(left_margin)) mar[2] <- left_margin par(mar = mar) # reverse the order of rows to have the highest ranked at the top importance_matrix[rev(seq_len(nrow(importance_matrix))), barplot(Importance, horiz = TRUE, border = NA, cex.names = cex, names.arg = Feature, las = 1, ...)] } invisible(importance_matrix) } # Avoid error messages during CRAN check. # The reason is that these variables are never declared # They are mainly column names inferred by Data.table... globalVariables(c("Feature", "Importance"))