My orginal code should work with those colnames. Note that you must not use "variable.name" but just variable.name.
I guess that somethings wrong with your dataframe. What does str(dat) and summary(dat) gives? Thierry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 thierry.onkel...@inbo.be www.inbo.be 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 -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Gundala Viswanath [mailto:gunda...@gmail.com] Verzonden: woensdag 2 september 2009 14:47 Aan: ONKELINX, Thierry CC: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Onderwerp: Re: [R] Howto Superimpose Multiple Density Curves Into One Plot Hi Thierry, I am sorry for coming back to you. Maybe I misunderstood you, but I got this: > colnames(dat) [1] "V1" "V2" > ggplot(dat, aes(x = "V1", colour = factor("V2"))) + geom_density() Error in data.frame(..., check.names = FALSE) : arguments imply differing number of rows: 1, 200 > ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1, colour = factor(V2))) + geom_density() Error in density.default(data$x, adjust = adjust, kernel = kernel, weight = data$weight, : need at least 2 points to select a bandwidth automatically - G.V On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:35 PM, ONKELINX, Thierry<thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > It looks like the data has other columnnames than the samplecode you provided. > > Use colnames(dat) to get the columnnames. Replace V1 with the columnname of > the values and V2 with the column name of the ID's. > > HTH, > > Thierry > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature > and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section > biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 > Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 thierry.onkel...@inbo.be > www.inbo.be > > 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 > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Gundala Viswanath [mailto:gunda...@gmail.com] > Verzonden: woensdag 2 september 2009 14:33 > Aan: ONKELINX, Thierry > CC: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Onderwerp: Re: [R] Howto Superimpose Multiple Density Curves Into One > Plot > > Hi Thierry, > > Thanks for the reply. I tried this: >> dat <- read.table("http://dpaste.com/88561/plain/") > > But I got such error: > >> ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1, colour = factor(V2))) + geom_density() > Error in density.default(data$x, adjust = adjust, kernel = kernel, weight = > data$weight, : > need at least 2 points to select a bandwidth automatically >> ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1, fill = factor(V2))) + geom_density(alpha = >> 0.2) > Error in density.default(data$x, adjust = adjust, kernel = kernel, weight = > data$weight, : > need at least 2 points to select a bandwidth automatically >> ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1)) + geom_density() + facet_wrap(~V2) > Error: could not find function "facet_wrap" >> >> ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1, fill = factor(V2))) + geom_density(alpha = >> 0.2) > Error in density.default(data$x, adjust = adjust, kernel = kernel, weight = > data$weight, : > need at least 2 points to select a bandwidth automatically >> ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1)) + geom_density() + facet_wrap(~V2) > Error: could not find function "facet_wrap" > > Maybe I miss something? What could possibly go wrong? > > - Edward > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:30 PM, ONKELINX, Thierry<thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> > wrote: >> Have a look at the ggplot2 package. >> >> library(ggplot2) >> dat <- read.table("mydat.txt") >> ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1, colour = factor(V2))) + geom_density() #or a >> few alternatives ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1, fill = factor(V2))) + >> geom_density(alpha = 0.2) ggplot(dat, aes(x = V1)) + geom_density() + >> facet_wrap(~V2) >> >> HTH, >> >> Thierry >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> -- >> ---- >> ir. Thierry Onkelinx >> Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for >> Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / >> Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 >> 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 >> thierry.onkel...@inbo.be www.inbo.be >> >> 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 >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >> Namens Gundala Viswanath >> Verzonden: woensdag 2 september 2009 12:10 >> Aan: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Onderwerp: [R] Howto Superimpose Multiple Density Curves Into One >> Plot >> >> I have a data that looks like this: >> http://dpaste.com/88561/plain/ >> >> And I intend to create multiple density curve into one plot, where >> each curve correspond to the unique ID. >> >> I tried to use "sm" package, with this code, but without success. >> >> __BEGIN__ >> library(sm) >> dat <- read.table("mydat.txt"); >> plotfn <- ("~/Desktop/flowgram_superimposed.pdf"); >> pdf(plotfn); >> >> sm.density.compare(dat$V1,dat$V2, xlab = "Flow Signal") colfill <- >> c(2:10); legend(locator(1), levels(dat$V2), fill=colfill) >> >> dev.off(); >> __END__ >> >> Please advice what's the right way to do it or if there is >> alternative way to do it? >> I am trying to get this kind of figure: >> http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2736/testl.png >> >> >> - G.V. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> Druk dit bericht a.u.b. niet onnodig af. >> Please do not print this message unnecessarily. >> >> Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de >> schrijver weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit >> bericht niet bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. 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