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[David Winsemius]

On Jun 24, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:

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Best;
David.

> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Zayd Farah wrote:
> 
>> I hope the following script is reproducible enough to highlight my issue,
>> which is to automatically (in this case by loop, but it does not
>> necessarily have to be by a loop) add geom_line layers for each column of
>> mydata to the ggplot variable p1. for some reason doing this only works by
>> manually adding each layer:
>> 
>> library(ggplot2)
>> library(gtable)
>> 
>> 
>> #creates set of reproducible data
>> xaxis<-rnorm(30)+10
>> xaxis
>> mydata<-replicate(9, rnorm(30)+20)
>> 
>> #creates a matrix of colors to identify each line on the final plot of
>> #each column of mydata
>> 
>> colour_scheme<-palette(rainbow(dim(mydata)[2]))
>> 
>> # Main scatterplot
>> p1 <- ggplot(NULL)
>> 
>> #ideal code that would create a geom_line layer for each column of mydata
>> vs. xaxis
>> for (i in 1:dim(mydata)[2])
>>   {
>>     p1=p1+geom_line(aes(xaxis,mydata[,i]),colour=colour_scheme[i])
>>   }
>> p1
>> 
>> #run the following code to see what it SHOULD look like:
>> p1 <- ggplot(NULL)
>> p1=p1+geom_line(aes(xaxis,mydata[,1]),colour=colour_scheme[1])
>> p1=p1+geom_line(aes(xaxis,mydata[,2]),colour=colour_scheme[2])
>> p1=p1+geom_line(aes(xaxis,mydata[,3]),colour=colour_scheme[3])
>> p1=p1+geom_line(aes(xaxis,mydata[,4]),colour=colour_scheme[4])
>> p1
>> 
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David Winsemius
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