Message-ID: <f8e6ff050712030622p274b0dbeyaa124e3b885eec0d@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2007-12-03T14:22:39Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: ggplot2: Choosing colours
In-Reply-To: <2E9C414912813E4EB981326983E0A10403F40E45@inboexch.inbo.be>
Hi Thierry,
Have a look at http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/scale_identity. (The way you
are currently doing it only works because you are not using any kind
of grouping/facetting, and I'm thinking about adding an explicit
message/warning for this case)
Hadley
On 12/3/07, ONKELINX, Thierry <Thierry.ONKELINX at inbo.be> wrote:
> Dear useRs,
>
> I'm trying to specify the colour of a factor with ggplot2. The example
> below gets me close to what I want, but it's missing a legend.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thierry
>
> library(ggplot2)
> dataset <- data.frame(x = rnorm(40), y = runif(40), z = gl(4, 10, labels
> = LETTERS[1:4]))
> ggplot(data = dataset, aes(x = x, y = y, group = z)) + geom_point(colour
> = c("red", "green", "blue", "black"))
>
>
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