[R] ggplot - Setting the y-scale in a bar plot

[Pedro de Barros]

Hi Hadley,

Well, the problem seems to be that ggplot is not recognizing the 
scale when set by scale_y_continuous, the maximum value stays exactly 
at the data range, irrespective of what I provide as range.
I am not familiar yet with proto, therefore I do have some difficulty 
delving into the code to find out exactly what is wrong, but I hope 
you can tell if I am doing something pretty stupid, or f it is a 
feature or a bug...

Cheers,
Pedro
At 21:15 2007/12/11, you wrote:
>Hi Pedro,
>
>What's the problem exactly?  You'll need to compute the range
>yourself, and then use scale_y_continuous as you have below.
>
>(Also you can abbreviate the bar chart plotting command to:
>qplot(x, y, data=plotdata, geom="bar", stat="identity"))
>
>Hadley
>
>On 12/11/07, Pedro de Barros <pbarros at ualg.pt> wrote:
> > Dear All (probably Hadley),
> >
> > I am now trying to customise some plots using a bar geom.
> >
> > I do not want to use the default binning statistic, but rather
> > calculate the bar heigths separately. I do manage this, but for
> > comparison purposes I would like to have a set of plots all with the
> > same y-axis height. But I do not seem to find out how to fix the
> > scale of the y-axis in this case.
> > Any tips?
> > Using R 2.6.1 on Windows.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Pedro
> >
> > I attach below the code I am using:
> > plotdata<-data.frame(x=factor(2:8), y=0.1*(2:8))
> > plot1<-ggplot()
> > plot1<-plot1+layer(data=plotdata,
> > mapping=aes_string(x='x',y='y'),geom='bar', stat='identity')
> >
> > RangeY <-c(0,1)
> > YBreaks <- (0:10)*diff(RangeY)/10
> > YTickLabels<- as.character(YBreaks)
> >
> > plot2 <- plot1 + scale_y_continuous(limits=RangeY, breaks=YBreaks,
> > labels=YTickLabels, expand=c(0,0))
> > print(plot2)
> >
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