[R] ggplot2 geom_rect(): What am I missing here

[Peter Ehlers]

Marsh,

Your rectangles won't be very tall with ymax=ymin!
(I hope that wasn't the cause of the 5 hours.)

  -Peter Ehlers

On 2010-04-04 14:18, Marshall Feldman wrote:
> Hi R fans,
>
> As a newbie following the five-hour rule (after hitting my head against
> the wall for five hours, post to this list), I am appealing for some
> help understanding geom_rect() in ggplot2.
>
> What I want to do is very simple. I want to generate a plot of
> rectangles. Each one represents a business cycle. The x-values will be
> pairs representing the start and end of each cycle. The y-values
> represent the duration of the cycle (in months). In other words, all
> rectangles have coordinates (start, duration) and (end, duration).
> rr
> I've spent hours trying to figure out the documentation and pouring over
> Google and RSeek searches and am at an impasse. The documentation refers
> to xmin, xmax, ymin, and ymax but doesn't say anything about them. The
> only example gives them both as vectors, so I assume they refer to a
> sequence of coordinates in which each rectangle's vertices is given by
> (xmin[i],ymin[i]), (xmin[i],ymax[i]), (xmax[i],ymax[i]), and
> (xmax[i],ymin[i]). But when I try to plot something simple using this
> understanding,  I get a blank plot.
>
> Here's my code:
>
>      df<- data.frame(
>               xmin = c(1,5),
>               xmax = c(2,7),
>               ymin = c(0,3),
>               ymax = c(2,5)
>               )
>      ggplot(df, aes(xmin = xmin, xmax = xmax, ymin = ymin, ymax = ymin)) +
>               geom_rect(fill="grey80")
>
> Please help me before I Google again! :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
>      Marsh Feldman
>
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Peter Ehlers
University of Calgary