[R] ggplot2 boxplot confusion
Chris Friedl
cfriedalek at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 00:09:41 CET 2008
Hi Hadley
First off, thanks for ggplot2 and everything that bringing it to life and
sustaining it entails.
I noticed the coord flip problem during my ggplot investigations. Is this
something I can override by getting into the code?
On the coord flipping problem I was thinking to grab the density data
explicitly, swap x and y and then plot as a scatter plot with a box plot
overlaid.
Or perhaps just draw the density plots with vertical lines drawn at the
median, IQR etc
Or perhaps draw the density plots and fake a boxplot by drawing bars
explicitly.
I'm hoping you can at least advise which of any of these routes is likely to
be a dead end.
regards
Chris
hadley wrote:
>
>> Now I think I understand want you want. I'm affraid that won't be easy
>> because you're trying to mix continuous variables with categorical ones
>> on the same scale. A density plot has two continuous scales: VALUE and
>> it's density. The boxplot has a continuous scale (VALUE) and the other
>> is categorical. Maybe Hadley knows a solution for your problem.
>
> Well one idea is:
>
> ggplot(diamonds, aes(x = price)) + geom_density(aes(min =
> -..density.., adjust= 0.5),fill="grey50", colour=NA) + facet_grid(. ~
> cut) + coord_flip()
>
> which looks like it would naturally fit with a boxplot overlaid on top
> of it. However, it's currently not possible because the boxplot is
> parameterised so that it is always horizontal, while the density is
> vertical - in the above example I have flipped the coordinate system,
> but that flips both density plot and boxplot.
>
> Hadly
>
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