[R] Multiple Plots using ggplot

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Tue Mar 31 08:24:51 CEST 2015


This is no better because (a) you are still posting using HTML format, and (b) using printed output loses the internal representation of the data. The dput function is very helpful for solving this. [1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
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On March 30, 2015 10:56:48 PM PDT, Frederic Ntirenganya <ntfredo at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Stephen,
>
>Sorry, the data came in bad way.
>Here is the head of the data.
>
>> head(data)        Date Number.of.Rain.Days Total.rain
>Start.of.Rain..i. Start.of.Rain..ii. Start.of.Rain..iii.
>Start.Rain..iv.
>1 1952-01-01                  86   1139.952                92
>      239                 112             112
>2 1953-01-01                  96    977.646                98
>       98                 112             112
>3 1954-01-01                 114   1382.014                92
>       92                 120             120
>4 1955-01-01                 119   1323.086               100
>      100                 125             174
>5 1956-01-01                 123   1266.444                92
>       92                 119             119
>6 1957-01-01                 124   1235.964                92
>       92                 112             112
>
>
>
>Frederic Ntirenganya
>Maseno University,
>African Maths Initiative,
>Kenya.
>Mobile:(+254)718492836
>Email: fredo at aims.ac.za
>https://sites.google.com/a/aims.ac.za/fredo/
>
>On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:34 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi Frederic,
>>
>> Can you provide a minimal reproducible example including either real
>data
>> (dput), or simulated data that mimics your situation? This will allow
>more
>> people to help.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Frederic Ntirenganya
><ntfredo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I want to plot multiple using ggplot function from a data frame of
>>> many columns. I want to plot only str1, str2 and str3 and I failed
>to
>>> make it. What I want is to compare str1, str2 and str3 by plotting
>>> vertical line. I also need to add points to the plot to be able to
>>> separate them.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is how the data look like and how I tried to make it.
>>>
>>> Date NumberofRaindays TotalRains str1 str2 str3 1/1/1952 86 1360.5
>92 120
>>> 112 1/1/1953 96 1100 98 100 110
>>> ...                                           ....
>>> ....             ...              ....            ....
>>>
>>> df1 <-data.frame(data)
>>> df1
>>> df2 <- melt(df1 ,  id = 'Date', variable_name = 'start of Rains')
>>> df2
>>>
>>> ggplot(df2, aes(Date,value)) + geom_line(aes(colour ="red"),type =
>"h")
>>>
>>> Kindly any help is welcome. Thanks
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Frederic.
>>>
>>> Frederic Ntirenganya
>>> Maseno University,
>>> African Maths Initiative,
>>> Kenya.
>>> Mobile:(+254)718492836
>>> Email: fredo at aims.ac.za
>>> https://sites.google.com/a/aims.ac.za/fredo/
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Stephen Sefick
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>> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
>so
>> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
>make us
>> feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying
>little
>> problems of being mammals.
>>
>>                                 -K. Mullis
>>
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>> science."
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