Hi Yang, Strategies for dealing with overplotting include transparency, size, and jittering. In your example you'll probably need all three.
m + geom_point(aes(x = expo, y = ze, shape = type), size = 1, alpha = .2, position = position_jitter(width = 0, height = 5)) + geom_density() seems to work OK. Best, Ista On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Yang Lu <yang...@williams.edu> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to plot a weighted density plot for two different types and want > to show the data points on the x axis. > > The code is as follows. The data points are very concentrated. Is there a > better way to present it( should I set the alpha value or something else)? > > Thanks! > > YL > > library(ggplot2) > > x <- rnorm(10000) > > a <- rnorm(5000) > > b <- rnorm(5000) > > weights.x <- abs(a/sum(a)) > > weights.y <- abs(b/sum(b)) > > weight <- c(weights.x, weights.y) > > ze <- rep(0,10000) > > type <- c(rep("a",5000), rep("b",5000)) > > d <- data.frame(expo = x, weight = weight, type = type, ze = ze) > > m <- ggplot(d, aes(x = expo, group = type, col = type, weight = weight)) > > m+geom_density()+geom_point(aes(x = expo, y = ze, shape = type)) > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.