[R] qplot and colors (Please Help)

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 07:31:14 CEST 2012


Hi David,

I believe you left out saying what color scheme you would prefer, so
it's hard to help, but you might be a start by looking at the
appropriate parts of Hadley's website here: http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/,
particularly the "scales" section.

Best,
Michael

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Lyon <david_lyon3 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Please help:
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> I am using qplot as below and want to specify a different color scheme for race but dont know how, can someone show me.
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> Thanks in advance
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> Code and input file below:
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> library(ggplot2)
> library(gridExtra)
> d<-read.table("results", header=TRUE, fill=TRUE)
> plot2<-qplot(X,Y,data=d,color=race,facets=TYPE~., xlab="X", ylab="Y") + theme_bw()
> grid.arrange(plot2,ncol=1)
> dev.off()
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> cat  results
> <snip>
> X       Y       ID      race    TYPE
> 0.0350  0.0200    1    X    NA
> 0.0280  0.0251    2    X    NA
> 0.0258  0.0175    3    Y    NA
> </snip>
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