Plot confusion matrix in R using ggplot

Question

I have two confusion matrices with calculated values as true positive (tp), false positives (fp), true negatives(tn) and false negatives (fn), corresponding to two different

Answer 1

Here's another ggplot2 based option; first the data (from caret):

library(caret)

# data/code from "2 class example" example courtesy of ?caret::confusionMatrix

lvs <- c("normal", "abnormal")
truth <- factor(rep(lvs, times = c(86, 258)),
                levels = rev(lvs))
pred <- factor(
  c(
    rep(lvs, times = c(54, 32)),
    rep(lvs, times = c(27, 231))),
  levels = rev(lvs))

confusionMatrix(pred, truth)

And to construct the plots (substitute your own matrix below as needed when setting up "table"):

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

table <- data.frame(confusionMatrix(pred, truth)$table)

plotTable <- table %>%
  mutate(goodbad = ifelse(table$Prediction == table$Reference, "good", "bad")) %>%
  group_by(Reference) %>%
  mutate(prop = Freq/sum(Freq))

# fill alpha relative to sensitivity/specificity by proportional outcomes within reference groups (see dplyr code above as well as original confusion matrix for comparison)
ggplot(data = plotTable, mapping = aes(x = Reference, y = Prediction, fill = goodbad, alpha = prop)) +
  geom_tile() +
  geom_text(aes(label = Freq), vjust = .5, fontface  = "bold", alpha = 1) +
  scale_fill_manual(values = c(good = "green", bad = "red")) +
  theme_bw() +
  xlim(rev(levels(table$Reference)))

# note: for simple alpha shading by frequency across the table at large, simply use "alpha = Freq" in place of "alpha = prop" when setting up the ggplot call above, e.g.,
ggplot(data = plotTable, mapping = aes(x = Reference, y = Prediction, fill = goodbad, alpha = Freq)) +
  geom_tile() +
  geom_text(aes(label = Freq), vjust = .5, fontface  = "bold", alpha = 1) +
  scale_fill_manual(values = c(good = "green", bad = "red")) +
  theme_bw() +
  xlim(rev(levels(table$Reference)))