[R] Question about ggplot2

[Shige Song]

Dear Josh,

This is exactly what I want, thank you so much!

Best,
Shige

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Shige,
>
> This is a feature that lets you view information about the specific
> data you are viewing.  If you merely want a visual adjustment, use
> coord_cartesian():
>
> year.plot + stat_summary(fun.y = "mean", geom = "line") +
>  coord_cartesian(xlim = c(0, 0.1))
>
> HTH,
>
> Josh
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Shige Song <shigesong at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Josh and Abhijit,
>>
>> Thanks for the help. The interesting thing is that the option "limits
>> = c(0, .1)" or "ylim(0,0.1)" also eliminates cases whose values are
>> greater than 0.1 and report missing values, which is not what I want.
>> Is there a way to keep all the cases for the computation of the
>> summary statistics and change the y limits in the final graph?
>>
>> Shige
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear Shige,
>>>
>>> You can use scale_y_continuous() to achieve this.
>>>
>>> year.plot <- ggplot(d, aes(year, rate))
>>> year.plot + stat_summary(fun.y = "mean", geom = "line") +
>>>  scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0, .1))
>>>
>>> where limits may be whatever you like for the y axis.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Shige Song <shigesong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to graph a simple scatter plot where the x axis is year
>>>> and the y axis is a percentage (percentage of infant death). Instead
>>>> of plotting the raw data, I want to plot summary statistics such as
>>>> mean and median. Here is the problem: the value range of y is between
>>>> 0 and 1, but since infant death is a rare event, the mean and median
>>>> is very low (something like 5%), which shows up as a horizontal line
>>>> at the bottom of the figure. My question is: how do I change the scale
>>>> of the y-axis so that it does not have the range between 0 and 1 but
>>>> between 0 and 0.1? Many thanks.
>>>>
>>>> By the way, I am using ggplot2, and here is my code:
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------
>>>> year.plot <- ggplot(d, aes(year, rate))
>>>> year.plot + stat_summary(fun.y = "mean", geom = "line")
>>>> -------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Shige
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joshua Wiley
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>>> University of California, Los Angeles
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>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Joshua Wiley
> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
> University of California, Los Angeles
> http://www.joshuawiley.com/
>