Dear Ivan, You're making things too complicated.
ggplot(mydata, aes(x = Spot, y = Value)) + geom_boxplot(aes(colour = Equipment), outlier.colour = "red") + geom_jitter() + facet_wrap(~Equipment, scales = "free_y") + scale_colour_manual(values = c(Leeb = "blue", Shore = "red")) Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey 2017-02-02 14:59 GMT+01:00 Ivan Calandra <calan...@rgzm.de>: > Dear useRs, > > I have been using base graphics since a long time and I'm currently trying > to switch to ggplot2. I'm struggling with the legend (which probably means > that my graphic commands are not optimal). > I have copied the output from dput(mydata) at the end of the email. > > Here is what I have tried: > library(ggplot2) > library(cowplot) > colo <- c("#F8766D", "#00BFC4") > p1 <- ggplot(data=mydata[mydata$Equipment=="Shore",], > aes(x=Spot,y=Value)) + geom_boxplot(outlier.size=2,fi > ll=colo[1],outlier.color=colo[1]) + geom_jitter() > p2 <- ggplot(data=mydata[mydata$Equipment=="Leeb",], aes(x=Spot,y=Value)) > + geom_boxplot(outlier.size=2,fill=colo[2],outlier.color=colo[2]) + > geom_jitter() > plot_grid(p1, p2, nrow=2, ncol=1) > > The plot is fine, but there is no legend at all. I know this has to do > with 'color' and 'fill' arguments to aes(), but I got lost with all of > this... > Ideally, I am looking for this kind of structure in the legend: > Equipment > [red box] Shore > [blue box] Leeb > Points > [black dot] Measurements > [red/blue dot] Outliers > > Thank you in advance for your help! > Bests, > Ivan > > > mydata <- structure(list(Equipment = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, > 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, > 2L), .Label = c("Leeb", "Shore"), class = "factor"), Spot = structure(c(1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, > 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, > 3L, 3L), .Label = c("1", "2", "3"), class = "factor"), Measurement = > structure(c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, > 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 1L, 2L, 3L, > 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 1L, > 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L), .Label = c("1","2", "3", "4", "5", > "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"), class = "factor"), Value = c(540, 640, 587, 593, > 677, 675, 626, 625, 635, 645, 492, 538, 560, 565, 560, 543, 560, 555, 580, > 577, 645, 645, 667, 658! > , 652, 667, 652, 659, 669, 671, 89, 90.5, 93, 91, 91.5, 94, 94, 91.5, > 92.5, 91.5, 82, 82, 78.5, 84.5, 83.5, 87, 88, 88.5, 83.5, 88, 89, 87, 87, > 88, 92, 90.5, 88, 90.5, 93, 92.5)), .Names = c("Equipment", "Spot", > "Measurement", "Value"), row.names = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, > 10L, 11L, 12L, 13L, 14L, 15L, 16L, 17L, 18L, 19L, 20L, 21L, 22L, 23L, 24L, > 25L, 26L, 27L, 28L, 29L, 30L, 101L, 102L, 103L, 104L, 105L, 106L, 107L, > 108L, 109L, 110L, 111L, 112L, 113L, 114L, 115L, 116L, 117L, 118L, 119L, > 120L, 121L, 122L, 123L, 124L, 125L, 126L, 127L, 128L, 129L, 130L), class = > "data.frame") > > > -- > > > -- > Ivan Calandra, PhD > MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and > Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution > Schloss Monrepos > 56567 Neuwied, Germany > calan...@rgzm.de > +49 (0) 2631 9772-243 > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra > https://rgzm.academia.edu/IvanCalandra > https://publons.com/author/705639/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posti > ng-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.