Re: [R] ggplot - class "character" problem

2011-09-13 Thread Ista Zahn
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:32 AM, RCulloch wrote: > I suspect it is to do with your method of creating the dataframe, I think the error is actually triggered by quoting the name of the data.frame in the qplot call. I would > check to see if the columns in the df are numeric, which you can do by:

Re: [R] ggplot - class "character" problem

2011-09-13 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi David, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM, David Menezes wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to use ggplot2 to chart a dataset that I've drawn in from > excel.  When I run the qplot command, I get the following error > message: > > Error: ggplot2 doesn't know how to deal with data of class character > > >

Re: [R] ggplot - class "character" problem

2011-09-13 Thread RCulloch
I suspect it is to do with your method of creating the dataframe, I would check to see if the columns in the df are numeric, which you can do by: is.numeric(flat_data$time) for each variable, if it is not numeric (and at least one must be a character, given the error message) then redefine as a