Dear useRs, I'm trying to specify the colour of a factor with ggplot2. The example below gets me close to what I want, but it's missing a legend. Any ideas? Thanks, Thierry library(ggplot2) dataset <- data.frame(x = rnorm(40), y = runif(40), z = gl(4, 10, labels = LETTERS[1:4])) ggplot(data = dataset, aes(x = x, y = y, group = z)) + geom_point(colour = c("red", "green", "blue", "black")) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 Thierry.Onkelinx op inbo.be www.inbo.be Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney
qplot(data=dataset, x, y, colour=z) ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:> Dear useRs, > > I'm trying to specify the colour of a factor with ggplot2. The example > below gets me close to what I want, but it's missing a legend. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Thierry > > library(ggplot2) > dataset <- data.frame(x = rnorm(40), y = runif(40), z = gl(4, 10, labels > = LETTERS[1:4])) > ggplot(data = dataset, aes(x = x, y = y, group = z)) + geom_point(colour > = c("red", "green", "blue", "black")) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature > and Forest > Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, > methodology and quality assurance > Gaverstraat 4 > 9500 Geraardsbergen > Belgium > tel. + 32 54/436 185 > Thierry.Onkelinx at inbo.be > www.inbo.be > > Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully > considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt > A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of > uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >
Hi Thierry, Have a look at http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/scale_identity. (The way you are currently doing it only works because you are not using any kind of grouping/facetting, and I'm thinking about adding an explicit message/warning for this case) Hadley On 12/3/07, ONKELINX, Thierry <Thierry.ONKELINX at inbo.be> wrote:> Dear useRs, > > I'm trying to specify the colour of a factor with ggplot2. The example > below gets me close to what I want, but it's missing a legend. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Thierry > > library(ggplot2) > dataset <- data.frame(x = rnorm(40), y = runif(40), z = gl(4, 10, labels > = LETTERS[1:4])) > ggplot(data = dataset, aes(x = x, y = y, group = z)) + geom_point(colour > = c("red", "green", "blue", "black")) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature > and Forest > Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, > methodology and quality assurance > Gaverstraat 4 > 9500 Geraardsbergen > Belgium > tel. + 32 54/436 185 > Thierry.Onkelinx at inbo.be > www.inbo.be > > Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully > considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt > A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of > uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- http://had.co.nz/
qplot(data=dataset, x, y, colour=z) ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:> Dear useRs, > > I'm trying to specify the colour of a factor with ggplot2. The example > below gets me close to what I want, but it's missing a legend. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Thierry > > library(ggplot2) > dataset <- data.frame(x = rnorm(40), y = runif(40), z = gl(4, 10, labels > = LETTERS[1:4])) > ggplot(data = dataset, aes(x = x, y = y, group = z)) + geom_point(colour > = c("red", "green", "blue", "black")) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature > and Forest > Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, > methodology and quality assurance > Gaverstraat 4 > 9500 Geraardsbergen > Belgium > tel. + 32 54/436 185 > Thierry.Onkelinx at inbo.be > www.inbo.be > > Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully > considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt > A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of > uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >