Hi Luigi, the problem is not the first graph vs the second graph. The first graph would also show the same effect if you added type='l' to the plot command. There are various ways to approach this. A quick search turned up the following which gives you different options. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14860078/plot-multiple-lines-data-series-each-with-unique-color-in-r
HTH, Eric On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:25 AM Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > I am trying to make an epidemic plot of the COVID pandemic using the core > plot function. I am looking at three countries and the countries are as > factors. The idea is to colour the entry by country, following this scheme: > ``` > df = data.frame(index = 1:10, > value = c(rnorm(10), rnorm(10), rnorm(10)), > set = c(rep("Group 1", 3), rep("Group 2", 3), rep("Group > 3", 4))) > plot(df$index ~ df$value, col=c("blue", "orange", "purple")[df$set]) > ``` > But in the actual graph there is only one colour: > ``` > Index = c(1:101) > g1 = c(0,259,457,688,769,1771,1459,1737,1981,2099,2589,2825,3235,3884,3694, > > 3143,3385,2652,2973,2467,2015,14108,5090,2641,2008,2048,1888,1749,391, > 889,823,648,214,508,406,433,327,427,573,202,125,119,139,143,99,44,40, > > 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,46,39,78,47,67,55,54,45,0,79,36,35,0,0,0,39,0, > 0,63,42,46,99,108,89,46,46,0,325,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0) > g2 = > c(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, > 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,59,283,125,130,240,184,341,401,779,930,924,1214,1459, > 2095,2960,2993,4528,2516,2509,4183,3935,4332,6615,6933,6824,4740, > 4450,4923,6173,6813,6365,4933,4031,3252,4288,5633,4939,3936,3281, > 2402,2218,2138,2543,2945,3699,2327,2018,1323,1388,2195,2481,0,0, > 0,0,0,0,0,0) > g3= c(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,58, > 78,72,94,147,185,234,239,573,335,466,587,769,778,1247,1492,1797,977, > 2313,2651,2547,3497,3590,3233,3526,4207,5322,5986,6557,5560,4789, > 5249,5210,6203,5909,5974,5217,4050,4053,4782,4668,4585,4805,4316, > 3599,3039,3836,4204,3951,4694,4092,3153,3961,2667,3786,3493,3491, > 3047,2256,2729,3370,2646,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0) > Incidence = c(g1, g2, g3) > Country = c(rep("China", length(Index)), rep("Germany", length(Index)), > rep("Italy", length(Index))) > df = data.frame(Index, Incidence, Country) > plot(df$Incidence ~ df$Index, > col = c("red", "black", "blue")[df$Country], > type = "l", lwd = 2, > xaxt = "n", > xlab = expression(bold("Date")), > ylab = expression(bold("Incidence")), > main = "Raw values") > ``` > > What am I missing? > Thank you > > -- > Best regards, > Luigi > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.