Excellent! Now I see that documentation in discrete_scale(). Thanks.

*Ben Caldwell*

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> How about
>
> lim <- with(input, {
>   c(min(amplitude),
>     max(amplitude))})
>
>
> p <- ggplot(sub1, aes(x=x,y=y,fill=amplitude))
>
> p +
>   geom_tile() +
>   scale_fill_gradientn("Custom
> Colours",
>                        colours=c("purple",
>                          "blue",
>                          "green",
>                          "yellow",
>                          "orange",
>                          "red"),
>                        limits=lim)
>
> # custom colours legend range and assigned colors is the same in the next
> plot
> dev.new()
>
> p <- ggplot(sub3, aes(x=x,y=y,fill=amplitude))
> p +
>   geom_tile() +
>   scale_fill_gradientn("Custom
> Colours",
>                        colours=c("purple",
>                          "blue",
>                          "green",
>                          "yellow",
>                          "orange",
>                          "red"),
>                        limits=lim)
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Benjamin Caldwell
> <btcaldw...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > Dear R help,
> >
> > I have some readings in three dimensions (x, y, z) and an amplitude for
> > each. I'd like to visualize the data using ggplot, using tile plots, as I
> > have some additional point data I would like to eventually overlay on the
> > tile plots.
> >
> > I would like to subset the data by sections, slices if you will, in the z
> > dimension, and plot the data for that slice.
> >
> > I can do all of this, but am having a largish hangup - ggplot
> automatically
> > keys the fill gradient to the data which is assigned the fill aesthetic.
> > This is a problem for me because I have different ranges of amplitudes
> for
> > different depth slices. So, I'm seeing the same color assigned to a
> > different amplitude for each of my plots.
> >
> > I would like to assign the colors in the fill gradient to a range that I
> > specify, not the range that is in the subset of the data, but I don't
> know
> > how.
> >
> > Some example data and code attached.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ben Caldwell
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > require(ggplot2)
> >
> > setwd("")
> >
> > input<-read.table("examplefile.txt", header=TRUE)
> > str(input)
> >
> > head(input)
> >
> >   # X      x      y      z depth amplitude
> > # 1 1 0.0125 0.0125 -0.025     1       623
> > # 2 2 0.0125 0.0375 -0.025     1       654
> > # 3 3 0.0125 0.0625 -0.025     1       685
> > # 4 4 0.0125 0.0875 -0.025     1      1598
> > # 5 5 0.0125 0.1125 -0.025     1      2200
> > # 6 6 0.0125 0.1375 -0.025     1      1917
> >
> > depths<- with(input, sort(unique(depth)))
> > depths
> > # [1] 1 2 3 4
> >
> > mysubset<-function(input, column.name, expression.to.match){
> >
> > output <- input[column.name==expression.to.match,]
> >
> > return(output)
> > }
> >
> > sub1 <- mysubset(input, input$depth, depths[1])
> > sub2 <- mysubset(input, input$depth, depths[2])
> > sub3 <- mysubset(input, input$depth, depths[3])
> > sub4 <- mysubset(input, input$depth, depths[4])
> >
> > p <- ggplot(sub1, aes(x=x,y=y,fill=amplitude))
> > p + geom_tile() + scale_fill_gradientn("Custom
> > Colours",colours=c("purple","blue","green","yellow","orange","red"))
> > # custom colours legend range and assigned colors is different than in
> the
> > next plot
> >
> > p <- ggplot(sub3, aes(x=x,y=y,fill=amplitude))
> > p + geom_tile() + scale_fill_gradientn("Custom
> > Colours",colours=c("purple","blue","green","yellow","orange","red"))
> >
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