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Unable to run smoother in qplot() or ggplot() - complains about knots

3 messages · Christopher David Desjardins, Hadley Wickham

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I get the following error when I run qplot()

qplot(grade, read,data = hhm.long.m, geom = c("point", "smooth"))

Error in smooth.construct.cr.smooth.spec(object, data, knots) :
  x has insufficient unique values to support 10 knots: reduce k.

I am not sure how to tackle this problem. When I take a subsample (<  
1000) than I am able to run that function but with my sample of ~   
40,000 qplot gives me that error. I have 6 grades.
Please cc me on reply.
Thanks!
  Chris
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Christopher David Desjardins
<cddesjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
You have 6 values on the x-axis?  Maybe you want to just calculate the
mean at each grade.  If so, see
http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/stat_summary.html

Hadley
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Thanks for the reply. I'll look into this.
Chris
On Mar 13, 2009, at 8:31 AM, hadley wickham wrote: