How to modify this Correlation Matrix plot?

Question

I have the following codes to display a correlation matrix,

panel.cor <- function(x, y, digits=2, prefix=\"\", cex.cor)
{
    usr <- par(\"usr\"); on.e         


        

Answer 1

Help page for the function pairs() gives you example how to define panels to plot.

For your particular case:

Changed panel.cor() function to show to lines of text - p-values and correlation coefficients.

panel.cor <- function(x, y, digits=2, cex.cor)
{
  usr <- par("usr"); on.exit(par(usr))
  par(usr = c(0, 1, 0, 1))
  r <- abs(cor(x, y))
  txt <- format(c(r, 0.123456789), digits=digits)[1]
  test <- cor.test(x,y)
  Signif <- ifelse(round(test$p.value,3)<0.001,"p<0.001",paste("p=",round(test$p.value,3)))  
  text(0.5, 0.25, paste("r=",txt))
  text(.5, .75, Signif)
}

For panel.smooth() function defined cex=, col= and pch= arguments.

panel.smooth<-function (x, y, col = "blue", bg = NA, pch = 18, 
                        cex = 0.8, col.smooth = "red", span = 2/3, iter = 3, ...) 
{
  points(x, y, pch = pch, col = col, bg = bg, cex = cex)
  ok <- is.finite(x) & is.finite(y)
  if (any(ok)) 
    lines(stats::lowess(x[ok], y[ok], f = span, iter = iter), 
          col = col.smooth, ...)
}

To add histograms, panel.hist() functions should be defined (taken from help file of pairs())

panel.hist <- function(x, ...)
{
  usr <- par("usr"); on.exit(par(usr))
  par(usr = c(usr[1:2], 0, 1.5) )
  h <- hist(x, plot = FALSE)
  breaks <- h$breaks; nB <- length(breaks)
  y <- h$counts; y <- y/max(y)
  rect(breaks[-nB], 0, breaks[-1], y, col="cyan", ...)
}

Final plot:

pairs(USJudgeRatings[,c(2:3,6,1,7)],
          lower.panel=panel.smooth, upper.panel=panel.cor,diag.panel=panel.hist)