Hi Raimund,
To increase your chances of getting help, I'd recommend using the
ggplot2 mailing list, and reducing your example down to the essence of
the problem. For example, the theme components don't affect the
problem, but make the code longer, and so harder to understand.
Hadley
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM, raimund <raipec at gmail.com>
wrote:> Hi everyone,
>
> i've been trying to make a special plot with ggplot2, but I can't
get it to
> fill the polygon I'd like to see filled so very very much.
>
> I want to display the difference or change in the distribution of the
> modified Rankin Scale between two groups. mRS is a scale for disability or
> daily activities competence.
>
> It looks like this.
>
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4361919/rankinplot.png
>
> I just wish the polygons in between the bars would fill in the same colors
> as the bar segments do.
> Interestingly, in the example provided by the geom_polygon help page, there
> is a fill, which leads me to suspect that something with my data frame
might
> be wrong.
>
> If I supply a "colour" argument, I get borders, but not always in
the color
> I defined. The attached image has such borders, to make clear what polygons
> I am talking about. In the final plot I don't desire such borders, only
the
> as of yet unattainable fill.
>
>
> Here's my code:
>
> library(ggplot2)
> library(plyr)
>
>
> # define good looks
>
> no_margins <- opts(
> ?axis.line = ? ? ? ? theme_blank(),
> ?axis.text.x = ? ? ? theme_blank(),
> ?axis.ticks = ? ? ? ?theme_blank(),
> ?axis.title.x = theme_text(size = 12, vjust = 0.15),
> ?axis.title.y = theme_text(angle = 90, size = 12, vjust = 0.2),
> ?axis.ticks.length = unit(0, "cm"),
> ?axis.ticks.margin = unit(0, "cm"),
> ?panel.background = ?theme_blank(),
> ?panel.grid.major = ?theme_blank(),
> ?panel.grid.minor = ?theme_blank(),
> ?plot.background = ? theme_blank(),
> ?plot.title = ? ? ? ?theme_blank(),
> ?plot.margin = ? ? ? unit(c(1, 1, 1, 1.5), "lines")
> ?)
>
> sfm = scale_fill_manual("mRS",
c("0"="darkgreen",
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "1"="forestgreen",
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "2"="mediumseagreen",
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "3"="coral",
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "4"="red",
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "5"="darkred",
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "6"="black"))
>
> barwidth = 0.6
>
> # good looks defined
>
> smalldummy = data.frame(
> ?mRS = as.factor(rep(0:6,2)),
> ?rsfreq = sample(0:6,14,replace=T),
> ?treatment = factor(rep(c("one","two"),each=7))
> ?)
>
> smalldummy = ddply(smalldummy, .(treatment), transform,
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? textpos = cumsum(rsfreq/sum(rsfreq)) -
> rsfreq/sum(rsfreq)/2, # center within segment
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? lineposx = cumsum(rsfreq/sum(rsfreq)))
> # segment borders without 0
>
>
>
> # make the xs of the polygon
> polylo = 1 + barwidth/2
> polyhi = 2 - barwidth/2
> xs = rep(c(polylo,polyhi,polyhi,polylo), 7)
>
> # make the ys of the polygon
> tmp1 = c(0, smalldummy$lineposx[1:7])
> tmp2 = c(0, smalldummy$lineposx[8:14])
> ys = c()
> for(i in 1:7) {
> ?nu = c(tmp1[i], tmp2[i], tmp2[i+1], tmp1[i+1])
> ?ys = c(ys, nu)
> }
> m = as.factor(rep(0:6, each=4))
> tmpdf = data.frame(xs, ys, mRS = m)
>
>
> bigdummy = merge(smalldummy, tmpdf, by = "mRS")
>
> ggplot(data = bigdummy, aes(x = treatment, y = rsfreq, fill = mRS)) +
> ?geom_bar(aes(width =
barwidth),stat="identity",position="fill") +
> ?geom_text(aes(label=as.character(mRS),
> ? ?y = ifelse(rsfreq != 0, textpos, NA)),
> ? ?size = 8, colour = "white") +
> ?geom_polygon(aes(x = xs, y = ys, group = mRS, fill = mRS)) +
> ?ylab("Modified Rankin Scale") + xlab("Treatment") +
> ?coord_flip() + theme_bw() + opts(legend.position = "none") +
no_margins +
> sfm
>
>
>
>
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