You'll also want to use dput() to send us an exact encoding of your data when making that reproducible example: there might be something subtle at play here that print methods won't show.
Michael On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Justin Montemarano <jmont...@kent.edu> > wrote: >> Ista: >> >> Your attached code did work for me; moreover, the facets were presented in >> the desired order with facet_wrap() and facet_grid(), which is what I'm >> using because I have a second factor used in facet_grid(). >> >> Still, my plots with total.density as a facet are coming out in 16, 32, 8, >> and I'm not seeing why. Below is my plot code - >> >>> ggplot(ag.tab[ag.tab$plant.sp == 'EC',], aes(x = days.out, y = >>> per.remain)) + facet_grid(total.density ~ prop.ec) + >>> #add point and error bar data >>> theme_set(theme_bw()) + >>> geom_point() + geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = per.remain - se, ymax = >>> per.remain + se), width = 3) + >>> #add predicted model data >>> geom_line(data = se.predict.data[se.predict.data$plant.sp == 'EC',], >>> aes(x = x.values, y = predicted.values), colour = c('red')) + >>> geom_line(data = dc.predict.data[dc.predict.data$plant.sp == 'EC',], >>> aes(x = x.values, y = predicted.values), colour = c('blue'), linetype = >>> c('dashed')) + >>> >>> xlab('Day') + ylab('Percent Mass Remaining') + opts(panel.grid.major = >>> theme_blank(), panel.grid.minor = theme_blank()) >> >> Is there anything odd about it that might be producing the odd ordering >> problem? FYI, avoiding subsetting ag.tab doesn't do the trick. > > I don't know. Please create a minimal example that isolates the > problem. You can start with > > levels(ag.tab$total.density) > > ggplot(ag.tab[ag.tab$plant.sp == 'EC',], aes(x = days.out, y = per.remain)) + > facet_grid(total.density ~ prop.ec) + > geom_point() > > Best, > Ista > >> - >> Justin Montemarano >> Graduate Student >> Kent State University - Biological Sciences >> >> http://www.montegraphia.com >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Justin, >>> >>> this gives the correct order (8, 16, 32) on my machine: >>> >>> total.density <- >>> >>> c(8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32) >>> total.density <- factor(total.density, levels=c(8, 16, 32), ordered=TRUE) >>> str(total.density) >>> >>> order(levels(total.density)) >>> >>> dat <- data.frame(td = total.density, v1 = rnorm(1:length(total.density))) >>> >>> ggplot(dat, aes(x = v1)) + >>> geom_density() + >>> facet_wrap(~td) >>> >>> Does it work for you? If yes, then you need to tell us what you're >>> doing that is different from this example. If no, please give use the >>> output of sessionInfo(). >>> >>> best, >>> Ista >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Justin Montemarano <jmont...@kent.edu> >>> wrote: >>> > I think I understand, but I believe my original interest is in the order >>> > of >>> > levels(total.density), since ggplot appears to be using that to order >>> > the >>> > facets. Thus, I'm still getting three graphs, ordered (and displayed >>> > as) >>> > 16 to 32 to 8, rather than the more intuitive, 8 to 16 to 32. I'm sorry >>> > if >>> > I wasn't clear and/or I've missed your message. >>> > - >>> > Justin Montemarano >>> > Graduate Student >>> > Kent State University - Biological Sciences >>> > >>> > http://www.montegraphia.com >>> > >>> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> > >>> > ______________________________________________ >>> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.