[R] ggplot2 legend problem

[Chris Friedl]

Thanks Hadley, Thierry for clearing up my misuse of the command syntax.
Thierry, the more I try the density plot, the more I see that it is right
for my application. Good call.

Be Well and Happy Always

Chris


ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
> 
> Dear Chris,
> 
> First of all I would go for the density plot. The 'extra' info from the
> histogram is just noise. So I guess you are not interessed in it.
> 
> ggplot(xy, aes(x=value, colour=case, group=case)) + geom_density()
> 
> But is you want to stick with a histogram then I would use one of the
> two below
> 
> ggplot(xy, aes(x=value, fill=case, group=case)) +
> geom_histogram(binwidth=0.1, position = "identity", alpha = 0.2)
> ggplot(xy, aes(x=value, fill=case, group=case)) +
> geom_histogram(binwidth=0.1, position = "dodge") 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Thierry
> 
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> Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> Namens hadley wickham
> Verzonden: woensdag 19 augustus 2009 14:18
> Aan: Chris Friedl
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [R] ggplot2 legend problem
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Chris Friedl<cfriedalek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Still struggling with this. A further example using a slightly 
>> different organisation of the data. The factors "A" and "B" are 
>> included in the dataframe in an attempt to get ggplot to generate a
> legend automatically.
>>
>> x <- data.frame(value=rnorm(5000, mean=0), case="A") y <- 
>> data.frame(value=rnorm(5000, mean=3), case="B") xy <- rbind(x, y) 
>> ggplot(xy, aes(x=value, fill=case, group=case)) +
>> geom_histogram(binwidth=0.1)
>> ggplot(xy, aes(x=value, fill=case, group=case)) + 
>> geom_density(alpha=0.2)
>>
>> Whilst the legend is generated as expected the histogram and density 
>> plots are different. The density plots overlap each other whereas the 
>> histogram plots stack. I'm trying the get the histogram plots to 
>> overlap, and retain the legend. Is the histogram stacking by design? 
>> Can stacking be changed to overlapping?
> 
> I'm skeptical that this will create a useful plot, but
> 
> geom_histogram(binwidth=0.1, position = "identity")
> 
> will do what you want.  You might also want to look at geom_freqpoly.
> 
> Alternatively, to use your previous approach, you just need to make a
> couple of small changes:
> 
> g + geom_histogram(aes(x=X, fill = "A"), colour="black", binwidth = 0.1)
> +
>    geom_histogram(aes(x=Y, fill = "B"), colour="black", binwidth = 0.1)
> +
>   scale_fill_manual("Case", c("A" = alpha("red", 0.5),
> "B"=alpha("blue",0.5)))
> 
> Previously you weren't supplying the fill aesthetic so the scale had
> nothing to work with.
> 
> Hadley
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