Use alpha values provided in data

Question

I would like to use the explicit values for the alpha level.

head(D)

    x  y group  alpha
  1 1 18     A   0.40   <~~~~
  2 2 18     A   0.44
  3 3 18            


        

Answer 1

If you have actual alpha, color, ..., values then you should use ..identity() scales. This will tell ggplot() to assign alpha values as they are in your data frame and not to scale them.

ggplot(data=D, aes(x=x, y=y, alpha=alpha)) + 
         geom_bar(stat="identity", fill="blue") + 
         facet_grid(group ~. ) +
         scale_alpha_identity()