Is there a way to set it to 3 color categories instead of a gradient? Like
if the color is based on the numbers in a dataframe column, can I make it
so anything >1.2 is red, <0.8 is blue, and anything in the middle is green?
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 6:28 PM April Ettington <apriletting...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thank you so much!
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 5:33 PM Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Note that the midpoint argument can make a big difference. In the code
>> below try commenting out the line where the default is changed.
>>
>>
>> f <- function(x){
>> (x - min(x))/(max(x) - min(x))
>> }
>>
>> library(ggplot2)
>>
>> df1 <- iris[3:5]
>> names(df1)[1:2] <- c("x", "y")
>> df1$z <- ave(df1$y, df1$Species, FUN = f)
>>
>> ggplot(df1) +
>> geom_point( aes(x, y, color = z) ) +
>> scale_color_gradient2(low = "red",
>> mid = "yellow",
>> high = "blue",
>> midpoint = 0.5
>> )
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Rui Barradas
>>
>>
>> Às 04:43 de 24/08/20, Jeff Newmiller escreveu:
>> > Check out scale_colour_gradient2()
>> >
>> > On August 23, 2020 8:12:06 PM PDT, April Ettington <
>> apriletting...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Currently I am using these settings in ggplot to make a gradient from
>> >> red
>> >> to blue.
>> >>
>> >> geom_point( aes(x, y, color=z) ) +
>> >> scale_colour_gradient(low = "red",high = "blue") +
>> >>
>> >> z is a ratio, and currently I am able to identify which have high and
>> >> low
>> >> values, but I'd really like to be able to distinguish which are >1, <1,
>> >> or
>> >> close to 1 by color. It would be great if I could set a middle color
>> >> in
>> >> this gradient (eg. green) that is set the the value of 1, even if that
>> >> is
>> >> not the exact midpoint between my highest and lowest values. Is there
>> >> a
>> >> way to do this in R?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you,
>> >> April
>> >>
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