Question

I have a confusion matrix such that:

  a b c d e f g h i j
a 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
c 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
d 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
e 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
f 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
g 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
h 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
j 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

where the letters denote the class labels.

I just need to plot the confusion matrix. I searched a couple of tools. Heatmaps in R looks like what I need. As I don’t know anything about R, it is really hard to do changes on the samples. If anybody could help me shortly how to draw, I will be really appreciated. Or any other suggestion rather than heatmaps are welcome as well.
I know there is plenty of samples about this, but still I cannot manage to draw with my own data.

Answer 1

As Greg mentioned, image is probably the way to go:

z = c(5,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
2,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,
1,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)

z = matrix(z, ncol=10)
colnames(z) = c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i", "j")
rownames(z) = c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i", "j")

##To get the correct image plot rotation
##We need to flip the plot
image(z[,ncol(z):1], axes=FALSE)

##Add in the y-axis labels. Similar idea for x-axis.
axis(2, at = seq(0, 1, length=length(colnames(z))), labels=colnames(z))

You may also want to look at the heatmap function:

heatmap(t(z)[ncol(z):1,], Rowv=NA,
               Colv=NA, col = heat.colors(256))