ggplot(fcs,aes(x=year,y=federal.ps))+geom_line()+geom_rect(data=rectlib,aes(x=xmin,y=Inf,xmin=xmin,xmax=xmax),ymin=-Inf,ymax=Inf,fill="red",alpha=0.2)
For some reason x and y must be defined as data sources for all layers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote: >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. ______________________________________________ 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.