Pontifications

  • As an aid to debugging the density plot with spikes of 1.0, I wanted to set the colours.
  • I tried aes but that doesn’t work!
  • AES maps but doesn’t SET part 8888 :-) the colour instead it maps the variable, in this case colourname, to a set of levels and the levels are mapped to a default colour palette i.e. the plot shows up not in the colours of colourname but in the default colour palette! Code:
    ggplot(average_colour_ig_van_jan2016_colourname,
    aes(colourname, colour=colourname)) + geom_density()
    

And here’s how it looks ggplot(average_colour_ig_van_jan2016_colourname, aes(colourname, colour=colourname)) + geom_density()-mapping-colourname-instead-of-plotting-colourname

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