HI, May be this helps: mydata_long1<-within(mydata_long,{colorvar<-factor(colorvar,levels=1:3)}) require("ggplot2") p <- ggplot(data=mydata_long1, aes(x=variable, y=value, group=id, colour = colorvar)) + geom_line() p
A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary <mlhow...@avalon.net> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [R] Getting discrete colors on plot Hi, This is my first post; I'm new to R but am a senior statistical programmer. I have done a lot of graphs using SAS Graph but now am trying to transition to using graphs in R. I'm trying to produce a graph where the colors have three categories- ideally I would like them to be Green for good, Yellow for Questionable, and Red for bad. So I tried to do this in GGPLOT; here is my code: id <- c(1,2,3,4,5) x1 <- c(5,2,3,5,1) x2 <- c(4,1,3,5,1) x3 <- c(5,2,3,5,1) x4 <- c(4,3,3,5,1) x5 <- c(3,1,3,5,1) colorvar <- c(3,1,2,3,1) mydata <- data.frame(id,x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,colorvar) head(mydata) # convert to long format require("reshape") mydata_long <- melt(mydata, id=c("id", "colorvar")) head(mydata_long) require("ggplot2") p <- ggplot(data=mydata_long, aes(x=variable, y=value, group=id, colour = colorvar)) + geom_line() p This works, but I get more colors on the graph than my colorvar has. I have 3 colors on my colorvar, but 5 colors show up on the graph, including 1.5 and 2.5. How do I tell ggplot only to use the 3 colors and not give me a gradient of colors? Also how would I specify the colors that I want, such as the RGB equivalents of green, yellow, and red? My real data will have many more records. -Mary ______________________________________________ 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.