Hi David, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM, David Menezes <david.n.mene...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to use ggplot2 to chart a dataset that I've drawn in from > excel. When I run the qplot command, I get the following error > message: > > Error: ggplot2 doesn't know how to deal with data of class character > > > It feels like I need to coerce one of the fields in my data frame. > Here's the code, which is short: > > #draw data in from network location > setwd("S:\\790\\Actuarial\\KFC\\609 Kernel\\Sensitivity > Tests\\Stressed ESG inputs") > input<-read.csv("yieldcurve plus 1pct abs.csv",header=FALSE) > > #label columns > colnames(input)<-c("scenID","yrs_ahead",0.5,1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0,8.0,9.0,10.0,11.0,12.0) > > #create a data frame that i hope! will work with ggplot.. > flat_data<-data.frame(cbind(input[1:2],stack(input[3:15]))) > colnames(flat_data)<-c("scenID","yrs_ahead","yield","time") > > #plot > library(ggplot2) > qplot(time,yield,data="flat_data",facets = yrs_ahead~.)
Try dropping the quotes from "flat_data", i.e., qplot(time, yield, data=flat_data, facets = yrs_ahead~.) Best, Ista > > now the error. > > In terms of the data format, head(flat data) returns the following: > >> head(flat_data) > scenID yrs_ahead yield time > 1 1 0 0.01637218 0.5 > 2 1 1 0.02446376 0.5 > 3 1 2 0.04501267 0.5 > 4 1 3 0.06947724 0.5 > 5 1 4 0.08262982 0.5 > 6 1 5 0.09761927 0.5 > > 1) Am I right that it's about coercion of variable type? > 2) Any ideas how to proceed? > > Many thanks, > Dave > > ______________________________________________ > 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.