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plotting multiple lines on single graph ggplot2

5 messages · Abdul Wahid Memon, John Kane, Ben Bolker

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Hello everyone

I have some data of the following type.

100 200 300 400 500
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
600 700 800 900 1000
1.5 1.7 1.9 2.0 2.4

With plot() and points functions I can plot these 4 lines of data. But
I dont know how to do it with qplot or ggplot functions. The scenario
is something like this: the hundreds should appear on x-axis and the
fractional values of y axis.

Thanks alot.

MEMON Abdul Wahid
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There are probably lots of better aproaches but this seems to work.  I just combined the lines into one vector and assighed a dummy variable to mark the diffferent lines

ibrary(ggplot2)
mydata <- data.frame(xrange <- c(100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 
        700, 800, 900, 1000),
        yrange = c( 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 2.0, 2.4),
        mark = c(rep("a",5), rep("b", 5)))
          
p <- ggplot(mydata, aes( xrange, yrange, colour= mark)) 

p <- p + geom_line()

p
--- On Mon, 11/28/11, Abdul Wahid Memon <engrwahidmemon at gmail.com> wrote:

            
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John Kane <jrkrideau <at> yahoo.ca> writes:
Yes, or qplot(xrange,yrange,colour=mark,data="mydata")

This was cross-posted to stack overflow: please don't crosspost.
(I didn't understand the question until just now, it was simpler
than I thought -- I thought the OP wanted *four* lines on the final
plot (not "I have four lines of data").
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Its very much simple.

Simply, if we do like the following
x<-c(100,200,300,400,500)
y<-c(1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5)
a<-c(600, 700, 800, 900, 1000)
b<-(1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 2.3)
plot(x,y)
points(a,b)

As you can see the call to points() function will superimpose a new
curve (with some new points on x-axis) on the existing plot.

This is what I want to achieve with qplot or ggplot functions

Regards
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
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--- On Mon, 11/28/11, Abdul Wahid Memon <engrwahidmemon at gmail.com> wrote:

            
Have you run that code?  Unless you specify the xllm() values it does not work.  

As Ben Bolker and I point out the modified data.frame I supplied does work either with ggplot() or qplot()
Same here for a while until I suddenly realised the x range did not make sense.