#' Plot feature importance as a bar graph #' #' Plot previously calculated feature importance: Gain, Cover and Frequency, as a bar graph. #' #' @param tree_imp a \code{data.table} returned by \code{\link{lgb.importance}}. #' @param top_n maximal number of top features to include into the plot. #' @param measure the name of importance measure to plot, can be "Gain", "Cover" or "Frequency". #' @param left_margin (base R barplot) allows to adjust the left margin size to fit feature names. #' @param cex (base R barplot) passed as \code{cex.names} parameter to \code{barplot}. #' #' @details #' The graph represents each feature as a horizontal bar of length proportional to the defined importance of a feature. #' Features are shown ranked in a decreasing importance order. #' #' @return #' The \code{lgb.plot.importance} function creates a \code{barplot} #' and silently returns a processed data.table with \code{top_n} features sorted by defined importance. #' #' @examples #' \dontrun{ #' data(agaricus.train, package = "lightgbm") #' train <- agaricus.train #' dtrain <- lgb.Dataset(train$data, label = train$label) #' #' params = list(objective = "binary", #' learning_rate = 0.01, num_leaves = 63, max_depth = -1, #' min_data_in_leaf = 1, min_sum_hessian_in_leaf = 1) #' model <- lgb.train(params, dtrain, 20) #' model <- lgb.train(params, dtrain, 20) #' #' tree_imp <- lgb.importance(model, percentage = TRUE) #' lgb.plot.importance(tree_imp, top_n = 10, measure = "Gain") #' } #' #' @export lgb.plot.importance <- function(tree_imp, top_n = 10, measure = "Gain", left_margin = 10, cex = NULL) { # Check for measurement (column names) correctness measure <- match.arg(measure, choices = c("Gain", "Cover", "Frequency"), several.ok = FALSE) # Get top N importance (defaults to 10) top_n <- min(top_n, nrow(tree_imp)) # Parse importance tree_imp <- tree_imp[order(abs(get(measure)), decreasing = TRUE),][1:top_n,] # Attempt to setup a correct cex if (is.null(cex)) { cex <- 2.5 / log2(1 + top_n) } # Refresh plot op <- par(no.readonly = TRUE) on.exit(par(op)) # Do some magic plotting par(mar = op$mar %>% magrittr::inset(., 2, left_margin)) # Do plot tree_imp[.N:1, barplot(height = get(measure), names.arg = Feature, horiz = TRUE, border = NA, main = "Feature Importance", xlab = measure, cex.names = cex, las = 1)] # Return invisibly invisible(tree_imp) }