[R] black and white in qplot? layout 4 graphs in one screen

baptiste auguie baptiste.auguie at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 23 22:40:38 CET 2011


Hi,

On 22 December 2011 09:16, rachaelohde <cox.rachael at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to plot means and standard errors conditioned by a factor, using
> qplot.  I am successful at getting the bar graph I want with a error bar,
> however I have tried many things and cannot get the bars to change colors.
> Currently showing as red and blue, but need it to be black and white for
> publication.  Any suggestions please?

Have a look at scale_fill_grey() and grid.arrange()

d= data.frame(x=sample(letters[1:4], 10, replace=TRUE), f=gl(2, 10))
( p = qplot(x, data=d, position="dodge", fill=f) + scale_fill_grey() )
library(gridExtra)
grid.arrange(p, p, p , p, ncol=2)

HTH,

baptiste

>
> Using a data set June, which is str:
> 'data.frame':   21 obs. of  6 variables:
>  $ BLCK     : Factor w/ 4 levels "","B","I","W": 3 4 2 3 2 2 2 4 3 4 ...
>  $ PLOT     : int  3 3 6 1 2 5 1 1 2 2 ...
>  $ TRT      : Factor w/ 5 levels "","crop","ten",..: 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 ...
>  $ Date     : Factor w/ 8 levels ""," 6/16/11",..: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
>  $ habitat  : Factor w/ 3 levels "","C","P": 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
>  $ Abundance: num  0.333 0 1.333 0 1.667 ...
>
> Current code is:
>
> Ab.avg<-ddply(June, c("TRT", "habitat"), function(df)
>  return(c(Ab.avg=mean(df$Abundance), Ab.sd=sd(df$Abundance))))
>
> avg.plot<-qplot(TRT, Ab.avg, fill=factor(habitat),
> data=Ab.avg, geom="bar", position="dodge")
>
> dodge <- position_dodge(width=0.9)
> avg.plot++geom_linerange(aes(ymax=Ab.avg+Ab.sd, ymin=Ab.avg-Ab.sd),
> position=dodge)+theme_bw()
>
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4223035/june_bar_graph.png
>
> Also, would like to plot 4 of these bar graphs (for four dates) on the same
> screen, I cannot get the par() or layout() function to work with qplot.  Is
> there another way?
>
> Thank you!
>
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