How do I fill a geom_area() plot using ggplot?

Question

I have a geom_area plot that looks like this:

I want to color everything above the x-axis green a

Answer 1

You need to make a new grouping variable for each positive/negative segment. To make the transitions less "blocky", you can just first interpolate the data:

require(ggplot2)

# Load data
df = read.table('data.txt', header=T)
df$created = as.POSIXct(df$created, tz='UTC')

# Interpolate data
lin_interp = function(x, y, length.out=100) {
    approx(x, y, xout=seq(min(x), max(x), length.out=length.out))$y
}
created.interp = lin_interp(df$created, df$created)
created.interp = as.POSIXct(created.interp, origin='1970-01-01', tz='UTC')
score.interp   = lin_interp(df$created, df$score)
df.interp = data.frame(created=created.interp, score=score.interp)

# Make a grouping variable for each pos/neg segment
cat.rle = rle(df.interp$score < 0)
df.interp$group = rep.int(1:length(cat.rle$lengths), times=cat.rle$lengths)

# Plot
dev.new(width=6, height=4)
ggplot(data = df.interp, aes(x = created, y = score, fill=score>0, group=group)) + geom_area() + scale_fill_manual(values = c('green', 'red'))