Dear List
I am trying to draw a heatmap using ggplot2. In this heatmap I have faceted my data by 'infection' of which I have four. These four infections break down into two types and I would like to reorder the 'infection' column of my data to reflect this. Toy example below: library(ggplot2) # test data for ggplot reordering genes <- (rep (c(rep('a',4), rep('b',4), rep('c',4), rep('d',4), rep('e',4), rep('f',4)) ,4)) fcData <- rnorm(96) times <- rep(rep(c(2,6,24,48),6),4) infection <- c(rep('InfA', 24), rep('InfB', 24), rep('InfC', 24), rep('InfD', 24)) infType <- c(rep('M', 24), rep('D',24), rep('M', 24), rep('D', 24)) # data is long format for ggplot2 plotData <- as.data.frame(cbind(genes, as.numeric(fcData), as.numeric(times), infection, infType)) hp2 <- ggplot(plotData, aes(factor(times), genes)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = scale(as.numeric(fcData)))) + facet_wrap(~infection, ncol=4) # set scale hp2 <- hp2 + scale_fill_gradient2(name=NULL, low="#0571B0", mid="#F7F7F7", high="#CA0020", midpoint=0, breaks=NULL, labels=NULL, limits=NULL, trans="identity") # set up text (size, colour etc etc) hp2 <- hp2 + labs(x = "Time", y = "") + scale_y_discrete(expand = c(0, 0)) + opts(axis.ticks = theme_blank(), axis.text.x = theme_text(size = 10, angle = 360, hjust = 0, colour = "grey25"), axis.text.y = theme_text(size=10, colour = 'gray25')) hp2 <- hp2 + theme_bw() In the resulting plot I would like infections infA and infC plotted next to each other and likewise for infB and infD. I have a column in the data - infType - which I could use to reorder the infection column but so far I have no luck getting this to work. Could someone give me a pointer to the best way to reorder the infection factor and accompanying data into the order I would like? Best iain > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base other attached packages: [1] ggplot2_0.8.9 proto_0.3-9.2 reshape_0.8.4 plyr_1.6 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] digest_0.5.0 tools_2.13.2 > ______________________________________________ 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.