Hi Thierry, I tried the code suggested below, but it didn't work fully. The ribbon showed up correctly for first and last days, but the days in between appeared to be ignored. I tried other ways of feeding geom_ribbon the summary stats but my ways didn't work either.
Thanks for trying to help, Sock On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:17 +0200, "ONKELINX, Thierry" <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > Dear Sock, > > I'm wondering if that mean_sdl function is return what you are > expecting. I would calculate the statistics outside ggplot. > > RibbonData <- ddply(dat.less, "Day", function(x){ > mean(x$Y) + c(ymin = -1, ymax = 1) * sd(x$Y) > }) > p + stat_summary(data=dat.less, aes(group=1), geom="crossbar", > fun.data="mean_sdl", mult=1) + geom_ribbon(data = RibbonData, aes(group > = 1, ymin = ymin, ymax = ymax), fill=alpha("blue", 1/10)) > > 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 Sock Cheng > Verzonden: maandag 14 september 2009 20:58 > Aan: r-help@r-project.org > Onderwerp: [R] ggplot, ribbon not showing up properly > > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot a longitudinal data set, using ggplot and adding some > summary info (eg. mean, 1 sd bounds) using geom=ribbon. The summary > info is based on a subset of the original data (eg. less an outlier). > But I'm having trouble getting the ribbons to show up correctly. It's > probably something obvious that I'm missing as a novice at ggplot2, and > any help is much appreciated! > > Here's a simple example. I tried several things. > - if I use geom=crossbar, everything is ok > - if Day is set as rep(c(1,2,3,8,9), each=8), then everything is ok, > which makes me wonder if the problem has to do with the ordering of Day? > Day is supposed to be numeric. > > Thanks! > Sock > > ### Example data. Ran using R version 2.9.2, ggplot2 version 0.8.3 ### > > set.seed(13) > > Day <- rep(c(1, 2, 3, 8, 20), each=8) > # The plot is ok if Day <- rep(c(1,2,3,8,9), each=8) > > ID <- rep(LETTERS[1:8], 5) > Y <- rnorm(length(Day), 100, 5) > dat <- data.frame(Day=Day, ID=ID, Y=Y) > > # outlier > dat$Y[dat$ID=="A" & dat$Day==8] <- 150 > dat.less <- dat[!(dat$ID=="A" & dat$Day==8),] > > # Longitudinal data plot. Obs for each subject is connected by a line > over time > > p <- ggplot(dat, aes(x=Day, y=Y, group=ID)) + > scale_x_continuous(breaks=sort(unique(dat$Day))) + > geom_line(colour=alpha("blue", 5/10)) > > # Adding mean, 1 sd bounds using crossbar geom is ok. But the same info > using ribbon geom doesn't work. > > p + stat_summary(data=dat.less, aes(group=1), geom="crossbar", > fun.data="mean_sdl", mult=1) + stat_summary(data=dat.less, aes(group=1), > geom="ribbon", fun.data="mean_sdl", mult=1, fill=alpha("blue", 1/10)) > > ______________________________________________ > 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. The views expressed in this > message > and any annex are purely those of the writer and may not be regarded as > stating > an official position of INBO, as long as the message is not confirmed by > a duly > signed document. ______________________________________________ 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.