Hello,

You're forgeting to tell gfeom_rect that the x and y aesthetics are already set elsewhere. You must include NULL, NULL as the first two arguments:

p + geom_rect(data = rectlib,
        aes(NULL, NULL, xmin = xmin, xmax = xmax, ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf),
        fill='red', alpha=0.2)


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 22-03-2013 21:01, John Kane escreveu:
Ah , thanks Sarah
So that's why the error message changed!  I was getting different one earlier.
  I had defined rect earlier and apparently, when stripping down the code I 
negelected to include it in the example.  Renamed rect as rectlib

Now what I get is "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'federal.ps' not found" 
which is what I was getting ealier although at one point I was getting "year not found".
See revised code.

library(ggplot2)
   fcs  <-  structure(list(year = structure(c(954478800, 986014800, 1017550800,
            1049086800, 1080709200, 1112245200, 1143781200, 1175313600, 
1206936000,
            1238472000, 1270008000, 1301544000, 1333166400), class = 
c("POSIXct",
           "POSIXt"), tzone = ""), federal.ps = c(211925L, 223933L, 237251L,
            242737L, 244158L, 243971L, 249932L, 254622L, 263114L, 274370L,
            282955L, 282352L, 278092L)), .Names = c("year", "federal.ps"),
            class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -13L))

   rectlib  <-  data.frame (xmin  = as.POSIXct("2000-03-31", "%Y-%m-%d"),
                            xmax = as.POSIXct("2006-10-31", "%Y-%m-%d"))

   p  <-  ggplot(fcs, aes(year, federal.ps )) + geom_line()

   p  +  geom_rect(data=rectlib, aes(xmin=xmin, xmax = xmax, ymin=-Inf, ymax = 
Inf),
                   fill='red', alpha=0.2)
   ###===================End 
Code==================================================

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


-----Original Message-----
From: sarah.gos...@gmail.com
Sent: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:49:34 -0400
To: jrkrid...@inbox.com
Subject: Re: [R] ggplot2 will not draw a rectangle. Error: ggplot2
doesn't know how to deal with data of class XXX"

Hi John,

This bit of your code:

geom_rect(data=rect

Your reproducible example doesn't create rect, and rect() already
exists, so geom_rect() is trying to treat a function as data.

Sarah


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote:
What am I missing?  When I run the code below I get the error message
"Error: ggplot2 doesn't know how to deal with data of class function"

Googling suggests a message of "Error: ggplot2 doesn't know how to deal
with data of class XXX" is not uncommon but I don't see why I am getting
a "function" error unless I am using some reserved word?

##=============Start Code=========================
library(ggplot2)

   fcs  <-  structure(list(year = structure(c(954478800, 986014800,
1017550800,
            1049086800, 1080709200, 1112245200, 1143781200, 1175313600,
1206936000,
            1238472000, 1270008000, 1301544000, 1333166400), class =
c("POSIXct",
           "POSIXt"), tzone = ""), federal.ps = c(211925L, 223933L,
237251L,
            242737L, 244158L, 243971L, 249932L, 254622L, 263114L,
274370L,
            282955L, 282352L, 278092L)), .Names = c("year",
"federal.ps"),
            class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -13L))


   p  <-  ggplot(fcs, aes(year, federal.ps )) + geom_line()

   p  +  geom_rect(data=rect, aes(xmin=xmin, xmax = xmax, ymin=-Inf, ymax
= Inf),
                   fill='red', alpha=0.2)
##=============End Code==========================

sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_0.9.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] colorspace_1.2-1   dichromat_2.0-0    digest_0.6.3
grid_2.15.3
  [5] gtable_0.1.2       labeling_0.1       MASS_7.3-23
munsell_0.4
  [9] plyr_1.8           proto_0.3-10       RColorBrewer_1.0-5
reshape2_1.2.2
[13] scales_0.2.3       stringr_0.6.2


John Kane
Kingston ON Canada



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http://www.functionaldiversity.org

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