[R] How to suppress factor labels

Ista Zahn izahn at psych.rochester.edu
Wed Jun 8 21:31:51 CEST 2011


Hi Jim,

See ?scale_x_discrete

Best,
Ista

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM, James Rome <jamesrome at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using ggplot2 to make a boxplot that overlays a scatterplot:
> pp = qplot(time, error, data=times, size=I(1), geom="jitter", main=title,
>        ylab="Error (min)", xlab="Time before ON (min)", alpha=I(1/10),
> color=times$runway,
>        ylim=c(-30,40))
>    pp2 = pp + with(times, facet_wrap(~ runway, ncol=2))
>    print(pp2 + geom_boxplot(alpha=.5, color="blue",
> outlier.colour="green", outlier.size=1))
> The x variable is a factor for every minute from 0:60. My problem is
> that ggplot2 labels every factor value on the x axis, and they overlap.
> How can I make ggplot2 label only, say every 5th factor value on the x axis?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
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