Thanks, that shows that I am not making one of my "really stupid" mistakes.
What is really annoying is that I can find examples on the web that work just fine and I cannot se how my example is that different. I even tried changing from using as.Date() to POSIXct() and to POSIXlt in case the dates were the problem but with no luck. I think it's time for dinner here so I will have another look at it tommorrow --hopefully someone will see the problem. Thanks again. John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: sarah.gos...@gmail.com > Sent: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:29:42 -0400 > To: jrkrid...@inbox.com > Subject: Re: [R] ggplot2 will not draw a rectangle. Error: ggplot2 > doesn't know how to deal with data of class XXX" > > I get "year not found" and we've exceeded my ability to debug ggplot > code. I hope someone else chimes in: I'd like to know what the answer > is too. > > > Sarah > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:01 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote: >> Ah , thanks Sarah >> So that's why the error message changed! I was getting different one >> earlier. >> I had defined rect earlier and apparently, when stripping down the code >> I negelected to include it in the example. Renamed rect as rectlib >> >> Now what I get is "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object >> 'federal.ps' not found" which is what I was getting ealier although at >> one point I was getting "year not found". >> See revised code. >> >> library(ggplot2) >> fcs <- structure(list(year = structure(c(954478800, 986014800, >> 1017550800, >> 1049086800, 1080709200, 1112245200, 1143781200, 1175313600, >> 1206936000, >> 1238472000, 1270008000, 1301544000, 1333166400), class = >> c("POSIXct", >> "POSIXt"), tzone = ""), federal.ps = c(211925L, 223933L, >> 237251L, >> 242737L, 244158L, 243971L, 249932L, 254622L, 263114L, >> 274370L, >> 282955L, 282352L, 278092L)), .Names = c("year", >> "federal.ps"), >> class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -13L)) >> >> rectlib <- data.frame (xmin = as.POSIXct("2000-03-31", "%Y-%m-%d"), >> xmax = as.POSIXct("2006-10-31", "%Y-%m-%d")) >> >> p <- ggplot(fcs, aes(year, federal.ps )) + geom_line() >> >> p + geom_rect(data=rectlib, aes(xmin=xmin, xmax = xmax, ymin=-Inf, >> ymax = Inf), >> fill='red', alpha=0.2) >> ###===================End >> Code================================================== >> >> John Kane >> Kingston ON Canada >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: sarah.gos...@gmail.com >>> Sent: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:49:34 -0400 >>> To: jrkrid...@inbox.com >>> Subject: Re: [R] ggplot2 will not draw a rectangle. Error: ggplot2 >>> doesn't know how to deal with data of class XXX" >>> >>> Hi John, >>> >>> This bit of your code: >>> >>> geom_rect(data=rect >>> >>> Your reproducible example doesn't create rect, and rect() already >>> exists, so geom_rect() is trying to treat a function as data. >>> >>> Sarah >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote: >>>> What am I missing? When I run the code below I get the error message >>>> "Error: ggplot2 doesn't know how to deal with data of class function" >>>> >>>> Googling suggests a message of "Error: ggplot2 doesn't know how to >>>> deal >>>> with data of class XXX" is not uncommon but I don't see why I am >>>> getting >>>> a "function" error unless I am using some reserved word? >>>> >>>> ##=============Start Code========================= >>>> library(ggplot2) >>>> >>>> fcs <- structure(list(year = structure(c(954478800, 986014800, >>>> 1017550800, >>>> 1049086800, 1080709200, 1112245200, 1143781200, 1175313600, >>>> 1206936000, >>>> 1238472000, 1270008000, 1301544000, 1333166400), class = >>>> c("POSIXct", >>>> "POSIXt"), tzone = ""), federal.ps = c(211925L, 223933L, >>>> 237251L, >>>> 242737L, 244158L, 243971L, 249932L, 254622L, 263114L, >>>> 274370L, >>>> 282955L, 282352L, 278092L)), .Names = c("year", >>>> "federal.ps"), >>>> class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -13L)) >>>> >>>> >>>> p <- ggplot(fcs, aes(year, federal.ps )) + geom_line() >>>> >>>> p + geom_rect(data=rect, aes(xmin=xmin, xmax = xmax, ymin=-Inf, >>>> ymax >>>> = Inf), >>>> fill='red', alpha=0.2) >>>> ##=============End Code========================== >>>> >>>> sessionInfo() >>>> R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01) >>>> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) >>>> >>>> locale: >>>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >>>> [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8 >>>> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8 >>>> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C >>>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>>> >>>> attached base packages: >>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>>> >>>> other attached packages: >>>> [1] ggplot2_0.9.3 >>>> >>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>>> [1] colorspace_1.2-1 dichromat_2.0-0 digest_0.6.3 >>>> grid_2.15.3 >>>> [5] gtable_0.1.2 labeling_0.1 MASS_7.3-23 >>>> munsell_0.4 >>>> [9] plyr_1.8 proto_0.3-10 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 >>>> reshape2_1.2.2 >>>> [13] scales_0.2.3 stringr_0.6.2 >>>> >>>> > > > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.functionaldiversity.org ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails ______________________________________________ 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.