Thanks for the info Jeff. I will stick to using annotate()
-- Adel Daoud, PhD, Researcher The New School for Social Research, Visiting Scholar in the Economics Department, 6 East 16th Street New York, NY 10003, dao...@newschool.edu University of Gothenburg Department of Sociology and Work Science, Box 720 405 30, Göteborg, Sweden Visiting address: Sprängkullsgatan 25, room F411 Sprängkullsgatan 25, room K109 +46 031-786 41 73 adel.da...@sociology.gu.se On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > I have run into this a couple of times ... If you generate the rectangles > once per row of your data, the fill gets more and more "dense" so your > alpha seems to not work. The annotate call only paints the rectangle once > so you don't have this problem. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > > On March 9, 2015 3:24:23 PM PDT, adel daoud <dao...@newschool.edu> wrote: > >Hi Jim, > > > >Thanks for the input but that did not work. I am suing Rstudio by the > >way > >and I guess that has a better device that would support ggplot output. > > > >The annotate options works but that does not explain why the geom_area > >does > >not work: > >annotate("rect", xmin=2, xmax=10, ymin=0, ymax=1, fill="black", > >alpha=0.5) > > > >Best > >Adel > > > > > >-- > > > >Adel Daoud, PhD, Researcher > > > > > > > >The New School for Social Research, > > > >Visiting Scholar in the Economics Department, > > > >6 East 16th Street New York, NY 10003, > > > >dao...@newschool.edu > > > > > > > > > > > >University of Gothenburg > > > >Department of Sociology and Work Science, > > > >Box 720 > > > >405 30, Göteborg, Sweden > > > >Visiting address: Sprängkullsgatan 25, room F411 > > > >Sprängkullsgatan 25, room K109 > > > >+46 031-786 41 73 > > > >adel.da...@sociology.gu.se > > > >On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >> Hi Adel, > >> Almost certainly because the device you were using doesn't support > >> transparency.Try it with a PDF device and check the resulting file in > >a PDF > >> reader: > >> > >> pdf("ad.pdf") > >> print(p) > >> dev.off() > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Adel <adel.da...@socav.gu.se> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi > >>> I am trying to activate the alpha argument to work, but for some > >reason it > >>> does not to play with me. Anybody has an idea why? > >>> > >>> > >>> p <- ggplot(data = prediction_df, aes(x=x, y=prediction, > >fill=threshold)) > >>> + > >>> geom_area(colour="black", size=.2, alpha=.4) + > >>> scale_fill_brewer(palette="Set1", > >>> breaks=rev(levels(prediction_df$threshold))) > >>> p + geom_rect(aes(xmin=2, xmax=10, ymin=(0), ymax=(1)), > >fill="black", > >>> alpha=0.5) > >>> > >>> > >>> prediction_df > >>> x prediction threshold > >>> 1 -10 0.5694161 noAF > >>> 2 -9 0.5700513 noAF > >>> 3 -8 0.5706863 noAF > >>> 4 -7 0.5713211 noAF > >>> 5 -6 0.5719556 noAF > >>> 6 -5 0.5725899 noAF > >>> 7 -4 0.5732240 noAF > >>> 8 -3 0.5738578 noAF > >>> 9 -2 0.5744914 noAF > >>> 10 -1 0.5751247 noAF > >>> 11 0 0.5757578 noAF > >>> 12 1 0.5763906 noAF > >>> 13 2 0.5770232 noAF > >>> 14 3 0.5776556 noAF > >>> 15 4 0.5782876 noAF > >>> 16 5 0.5789195 noAF > >>> 17 6 0.5795510 noAF > >>> 18 7 0.5801823 noAF > >>> 19 8 0.5808134 noAF > >>> 20 9 0.5814441 noAF > >>> 21 10 0.5820747 noAF > >>> 22 -10 0.2359140 singleAF > >>> 23 -9 0.2356847 singleAF > >>> 24 -8 0.2354550 singleAF > >>> 25 -7 0.2352249 singleAF > >>> 26 -6 0.2349943 singleAF > >>> 27 -5 0.2347634 singleAF > >>> 28 -4 0.2345321 singleAF > >>> 29 -3 0.2343003 singleAF > >>> 30 -2 0.2340682 singleAF > >>> 31 -1 0.2338356 singleAF > >>> 32 0 0.2336027 singleAF > >>> 33 1 0.2333694 singleAF > >>> 34 2 0.2331357 singleAF > >>> 35 3 0.2329016 singleAF > >>> 36 4 0.2326671 singleAF > >>> 37 5 0.2324322 singleAF > >>> 38 6 0.2321969 singleAF > >>> 39 7 0.2319613 singleAF > >>> 40 8 0.2317253 singleAF > >>> 41 9 0.2314889 singleAF > >>> 42 10 0.2312522 singleAF > >>> 43 -10 0.1946699 multipleAF > >>> 44 -9 0.1942640 multipleAF > >>> 45 -8 0.1938587 multipleAF > >>> 46 -7 0.1934540 multipleAF > >>> 47 -6 0.1930500 multipleAF > >>> 48 -5 0.1926467 multipleAF > >>> 49 -4 0.1922440 multipleAF > >>> 50 -3 0.1918419 multipleAF > >>> 51 -2 0.1914404 multipleAF > >>> 52 -1 0.1910397 multipleAF > >>> 53 0 0.1906395 multipleAF > >>> 54 1 0.1902400 multipleAF > >>> 55 2 0.1898411 multipleAF > >>> 56 3 0.1894429 multipleAF > >>> 57 4 0.1890453 multipleAF > >>> 58 5 0.1886483 multipleAF > >>> 59 6 0.1882520 multipleAF > >>> 60 7 0.1878564 multipleAF > >>> 61 8 0.1874613 multipleAF > >>> 62 9 0.1870669 multipleAF > >>> 63 10 0.1866732 multipleAF > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> View this message in context: > >>> > > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Alpha-not-working-in-geom-rect-tp4704291.html > >>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >>> 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. > >>> > >> > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > >______________________________________________ > >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.