Dear Ben, great, works fine! I guess, the error occurs because data outside the scale limits "is thrown away" as stated in ?coord_cartesian .
Thanks, Felix From: Ben Bolker <bbolker_at_gmail.com<mailto:bbolker_at_gmail.com?Subject=Re:%20[R]%20break%20error%20bars%20in%20ggplot2>> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:44:44 +0000 Fischer, Felix <Felix.Fischer <at> charite.de> writes: > > Hello, <http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e16/help/11/11/1444.html#1454qlink1> > > i use ggplot to plot some measures including CIs as horizontal > errorbars. I get an error when the scale > limits are narrower than the boundaries of the error bar and > hence the CIs are not plotted. > > library(ggplot2) > df <- data.frame(resp=c(1,2), k=c(1,2), se=c(1,2)) > > ggplot(df, aes(resp,y=k)) + geom_point() + > geom_errorbarh(aes(xmax = resp + se, xmin = resp - se)) + > scale_x_continuous(limits=c(-1,3)) > > Is there a way to plot the errorbars anyway? Setting > xmax to the scale limit is not so good, I guess, because > you couldn't determine whether the CI is wider than the scale limits or not. I'm not sure I completely understand your last paragraph, but I think you want to substitute coord_cartesian(xlim=c(-1,3)) for your scale_x_continuous() component; as discussed in the ggplot2 book, limits set on scales act differently than limits set on coordinate systems. (I'm a little surprised you get an error, though.) There's a very active ggplot2 google group that might be best for ggplot(2)-specific questions ... [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.