visualizing crosstab tables with a plot in R

Question

I saw a plot generated in excel and I was wondering if R could also do it.

This picture is essentially a visualization of a crosstab table comparing the days of the week to preferred meals on that day and counting the number of people that fall within those categories.

I've read up on some R bubble charts but I have yet to see one like this. Can someone point me to a package or a website that explains how I can make a plot like this one?

Answer 1

Using Hadley Wickham's ggplot2:

library(ggplot2)                           

# Set up the vectors                           
days <- c("Mon","Tues","Wed","Thurs","Fri")
slots <- c("Coffee/Breakfast","Lunch","Happy Hour","Dinner")

# Create the data frame
df <- expand.grid(days, slots)
df$value <- c(1,1,1,1,2,1,1,NA,NA,1,4,4,7,4,1,5,6,14,5,1)    

#Plot the Data
g <- ggplot(df, aes(Var1, Var2)) + geom_point(aes(size = value), colour = "green") + theme_bw() + xlab("") + ylab("")
g + scale_size_continuous(range=c(10,30)) + geom_text(aes(label = value))

Do you care that the axis lines go through the circles? Also, the greens are slightly different and the label text is black instead of white.