R how to visualize confusion matrix using the caret package

You could use the function conf_mat() from yardstick plus autoplot() to get in a few rows a pretty nice result.

Plus you can still use basic ggplot sintax in order to fix the styling.

library(yardstick)
library(ggplot2)


# The confusion matrix from a single assessment set (i.e. fold)
cm <- conf_mat(truth_predicted, obs, pred)

autoplot(cm, type = "heatmap") +
  scale_fill_gradient(low="#D6EAF8",high = "#2E86C1")

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Just as an example of further customizations, using ggplot sintax you can also add back the legend with:

+ theme(legend.position = "right")

Changing the name of the legend would be pretty easy too : + labs(fill="legend_name")

Data Example:

set.seed(123)
truth_predicted <- data.frame(
  obs = sample(0:1,100, replace = T),
  pred = sample(0:1,100, replace = T)
)
truth_predicted$obs <- as.factor(truth_predicted$obs)
truth_predicted$pred <- as.factor(truth_predicted$pred)

You can just use the rect functionality in r to layout the confusion matrix. Here we will create a function that allows the user to pass in the cm object created by the caret package in order to produce the visual.

Let's start by creating an evaluation dataset as done in the caret demo:

# construct the evaluation dataset
set.seed(144)
true_class <- factor(sample(paste0("Class", 1:2), size = 1000, prob = c(.2, .8), replace = TRUE))
true_class <- sort(true_class)
class1_probs <- rbeta(sum(true_class == "Class1"), 4, 1)
class2_probs <- rbeta(sum(true_class == "Class2"), 1, 2.5)
test_set <- data.frame(obs = true_class,Class1 = c(class1_probs, class2_probs))
test_set$Class2 <- 1 - test_set$Class1
test_set$pred <- factor(ifelse(test_set$Class1 >= .5, "Class1", "Class2"))

Now let's use caret to calculate the confusion matrix:

# calculate the confusion matrix
cm <- confusionMatrix(data = test_set$pred, reference = test_set$obs)

Now we create a function that lays out the rectangles as needed to showcase the confusion matrix in a more visually appealing fashion:

draw_confusion_matrix <- function(cm) {

  layout(matrix(c(1,1,2)))
  par(mar=c(2,2,2,2))
  plot(c(100, 345), c(300, 450), type = "n", xlab="", ylab="", xaxt='n', yaxt='n')
  title('CONFUSION MATRIX', cex.main=2)

  # create the matrix 
  rect(150, 430, 240, 370, col='#3F97D0')
  text(195, 435, 'Class1', cex=1.2)
  rect(250, 430, 340, 370, col='#F7AD50')
  text(295, 435, 'Class2', cex=1.2)
  text(125, 370, 'Predicted', cex=1.3, srt=90, font=2)
  text(245, 450, 'Actual', cex=1.3, font=2)
  rect(150, 305, 240, 365, col='#F7AD50')
  rect(250, 305, 340, 365, col='#3F97D0')
  text(140, 400, 'Class1', cex=1.2, srt=90)
  text(140, 335, 'Class2', cex=1.2, srt=90)

  # add in the cm results 
  res <- as.numeric(cm$table)
  text(195, 400, res[1], cex=1.6, font=2, col='white')
  text(195, 335, res[2], cex=1.6, font=2, col='white')
  text(295, 400, res[3], cex=1.6, font=2, col='white')
  text(295, 335, res[4], cex=1.6, font=2, col='white')

  # add in the specifics 
  plot(c(100, 0), c(100, 0), type = "n", xlab="", ylab="", main = "DETAILS", xaxt='n', yaxt='n')
  text(10, 85, names(cm$byClass[1]), cex=1.2, font=2)
  text(10, 70, round(as.numeric(cm$byClass[1]), 3), cex=1.2)
  text(30, 85, names(cm$byClass[2]), cex=1.2, font=2)
  text(30, 70, round(as.numeric(cm$byClass[2]), 3), cex=1.2)
  text(50, 85, names(cm$byClass[5]), cex=1.2, font=2)
  text(50, 70, round(as.numeric(cm$byClass[5]), 3), cex=1.2)
  text(70, 85, names(cm$byClass[6]), cex=1.2, font=2)
  text(70, 70, round(as.numeric(cm$byClass[6]), 3), cex=1.2)
  text(90, 85, names(cm$byClass[7]), cex=1.2, font=2)
  text(90, 70, round(as.numeric(cm$byClass[7]), 3), cex=1.2)

  # add in the accuracy information 
  text(30, 35, names(cm$overall[1]), cex=1.5, font=2)
  text(30, 20, round(as.numeric(cm$overall[1]), 3), cex=1.4)
  text(70, 35, names(cm$overall[2]), cex=1.5, font=2)
  text(70, 20, round(as.numeric(cm$overall[2]), 3), cex=1.4)
}  

Finally, pass in the cm object that we calculated when using caret to create the confusion matrix:

draw_confusion_matrix(cm)

And here are the results:

You could use the built-in fourfoldplot. For example,

ctable <- as.table(matrix(c(42, 6, 8, 28), nrow = 2, byrow = TRUE))
fourfoldplot(ctable, color = c("#CC6666", "#99CC99"),
             conf.level = 0, margin = 1, main = "Confusion Matrix")