I'm sorry I didn't give the correct code, or explaination; the
shape=pch doesn't work anymore. For example this used to work, but no
longer can accept continuous values:
#example code
a <- 1:10
b <- 1:10
pch <- 1:10
q <- data.frame(a,b,pch)
qplot(a,b, shape=pch)
many thanks,
Stephen Sefick
On 07/17/2012 07:28 PM, Stephen Sefick wrote:> Is there a way to use a continuous variable to pch in qplot? I
> believe this worked in previous version. I need to specify certain
> values of a shape for particular points so that multiple graphs all
> show the same shapes for the same streams. I have gone to the
> original data and added a pch column that I would like to use to
> specify the shapes to pch in qplot. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> #example code
> a <- 1:10
> b <- 1:10
> pch <- 1:10
>
> q <- data.frame(a,b,pch)
>
> qplot(a,b, pch=pch)
>
> Many thanks,
>
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