Draw a Raster Plot based on a Data Frame in R (Example Code)

In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to transform a data frame to a raster graphic in R programming.

Creating Example Data

set.seed(3265343)                  # Creating example data
df <- data.frame(x = rep(1:3, each = 3),
                    y = rep(1:3, 3),
                    z = round(rnorm(9), 2))
df
#   x y     z
# 1 1 1  0.08
# 2 1 2 -0.90
# 3 1 3  0.09
# 4 2 1  0.29
# 5 2 2  0.98
# 6 2 3  1.43
# 7 3 1  0.67
# 8 3 2 -0.15
# 9 3 3  0.07

Example: Draw Raster from Data Frame Using rasterFromXYZ() Function of raster Package

install.packages("raster")         # Install raster package
library("raster")                  # Load raster package
df_rst <- rasterFromXYZ(df)        # Transforming data frame to raster
plot(df_rst)                       # Creating a raster graph

r graph figure 1 draw raster based on data frame r

Further Resources & Related Articles

Below, you can find some further resources on topics such as graphics in R, data objects, variables, and ggplot2.

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