Hi Hadley First off, thanks for ggplot2 and everything that bringing it to life and sustaining it entails.
I noticed the coord flip problem during my ggplot investigations. Is this something I can override by getting into the code? On the coord flipping problem I was thinking to grab the density data explicitly, swap x and y and then plot as a scatter plot with a box plot overlaid. Or perhaps just draw the density plots with vertical lines drawn at the median, IQR etc Or perhaps draw the density plots and fake a boxplot by drawing bars explicitly. I'm hoping you can at least advise which of any of these routes is likely to be a dead end. regards Chris hadley wrote: > >> Now I think I understand want you want. I'm affraid that won't be easy >> because you're trying to mix continuous variables with categorical ones >> on the same scale. A density plot has two continuous scales: VALUE and >> it's density. The boxplot has a continuous scale (VALUE) and the other >> is categorical. Maybe Hadley knows a solution for your problem. > > Well one idea is: > > ggplot(diamonds, aes(x = price)) + geom_density(aes(min = > -..density.., adjust= 0.5),fill="grey50", colour=NA) + facet_grid(. ~ > cut) + coord_flip() > > which looks like it would naturally fit with a boxplot overlaid on top > of it. However, it's currently not possible because the boxplot is > parameterised so that it is always horizontal, while the density is > vertical - in the above example I have flipped the coordinate system, > but that flips both density plot and boxplot. > > Hadly > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ggplot2-boxplot-confusion-tp15706116p15725753.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.