Interaction scatterplots in ggplot with multiple regression lines

-----Original Message-----
From: dadrivr at gmail.com
Sent: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:45:07 -0400
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Interaction scatterplots in ggplot with multiple regression
lines

I'm trying to treat a continuous variable as discrete for plotting
multiple regression lines in a scatterplot as a function of the level
on the moderating variable.  In the example below, there is only one
regression line plotted to the whole data.  I would like a separate
regression line for each discrete level of the moderator.  The
moderator is continuous, so I'd like to treat it as discrete for
plotting the regression lines.

Here's an example (I would like 7 regression lines corresponding to
the discrete levels of the moderator, as displayed in the legend,
instead of just 1 regression line):

###########################
library(ggplot2)
set.seed(1234)
predictor <- rnorm(1000, 3)
outcome <- rnorm(1000, 10)
moderator <- rnorm(1000)
mydata <- data.frame(predictor, outcome, moderator)

ggplot(mydata, aes(x=predictor, y=outcome, color=moderator)) +
geom_point() + scale_colour_gradient2(low="blue", high="red") +
stat_smooth(method=lm, se=TRUE, fullrange=T)
###########################

Also, how can I set how many discrete levels to plot (e.g., 3 instead of
7)?

Thanks in advance!