[R] ggplot2: Choosing colours

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 15:22:39 CET 2007


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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