Plot decision boundaries with ggplot2?

Question

How do I plot the equivalent of contour (base R) with ggplot2? Below is an example with linear discriminant function analysis:

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Answer 1

The partimat function in the klaR library does what you want for observed predictors, but if you want the same for the LDA projections, you can build a data frame augmenting the original with the LD1...LDk projections, then call partimat with formula Group~LD1+...+LDk, method='lda' - then you see the "LD-plane" that you intended to see, nicely partitioned for you. This seemed easier to me, at least to explain to students newer to R, since I'm just reusing a function already provided in a way in which it wasn't quite intended.