[R] ggplot2 legend text....a basic question

Julian Burgos jmburgos at u.washington.edu
Mon Sep 14 19:14:13 CEST 2009


Hello fellow R's, 

I´ve been learning to use the ggplot2 library, and after a full day of 
work I still have a couple of basic questions.
Here is an example:

mydata=data.frame(x=runif(20),y=runif(20),n=runif(20))
mydata2=data.frame(x=c(0.4,0.6,0.5),y=c(0.4,0.4,0.6))
ggplot(mydata, aes(x, y))   + geom_point(aes(size = n)) + 
geom_polygon(data=mydata2,aes(x,y,alpha=0.5))

In this plot, the points are labeled as "n" (the name of the variable) 
and the polygon is labeled as "0.5" (the alpha value used).   My 
questions are:
a) How to change the text  in the legend (for example, "number" instead 
of "n").
b) How to avoid having a  legend for the polygon?
Many thanks,

Julian

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