Plotting with ggplot2: “Error: Discrete value supplied to continuous scale” on categorical y-axis

问题

The plotting code below gives Error: Discrete value supplied to continuous scale

What\'s wrong with this code? It works fine until I try to change the scale so the error is there... I tried to figure out solutions from similar problem but couldn\'t.

This is a head of my data:

> dput(head(df))
structure(list(`10` = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `33.95` = c(0, 0, 
0, 0, 0, 0), `58.66` = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `84.42` = c(0, 0, 
0, 0, 0, 0), `110.21` = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `134.16` = c(0, 
0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `164.69` = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `199.1` = c(0, 
0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `234.35` = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `257.19` = c(0, 
0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `361.84` = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `432.74` = c(0, 
0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `506.34` = c(1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `581.46` = c(0, 
0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `651.71` = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `732.59` = c(0, 
0, 0, 0, 0, 1), `817.56` = c(0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0), `896.24` = c(0, 
0, 0, 0, 0, 0), `971.77` = c(0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1), `1038.91` = c(0, 
0, 0, 0, 0, 0), MW = c(3.9, 6.4, 7.4, 8.1, 9, 9.4)), .Names = c(\"10\", 
\"33.95\", \"58.66\", \"84.42\", \"110.21\", \"134.16\", \"164.69\", \"199.1\", 
\"234.35\", \"257.19\", \"361.84\", \"432.74\", \"506.34\", \"581.46\", \"651.71\", 
\"732.59\", \"817.56\", \"896.24\", \"971.77\", \"1038.91\", \"MW\"), row.names = c(\"Merc\", 
\"Peug\", \"Fera\", \"Fiat\", \"Opel\", \"Volv\"
), class = \"data.frame\")

The plotting code:

## Plotting
meltDF = melt(df, id.vars = \'MW\')
ggplot(meltDF[meltDF$value == 1,]) + geom_point(aes(x = MW, y = variable)) +
  scale_x_continuous(limits=c(0, 1200), breaks=c(0, 400, 800, 1200)) +
  scale_y_continuous(limits=c(0, 1200), breaks=c(0, 400, 800, 1200))

Here\'s how the plot looked before adding scale:

$\"Plot\"$

回答1:

As mentioned in the comments, there cannot be a continuous scale on variable of the factor type. You could change the factor to numeric as follows, just after you define the meltDF variable.

meltDF$variable=as.numeric(levels(meltDF$variable))[meltDF$variable]

Then, execute the ggplot command

  ggplot(meltDF[meltDF$value == 1,]) + geom_point(aes(x = MW, y =   variable)) +
     scale_x_continuous(limits=c(0, 1200), breaks=c(0, 400, 800, 1200)) +
     scale_y_continuous(limits=c(0, 1200), breaks=c(0, 400, 800, 1200))

And you will have your chart.

Hope this helps

回答2:

if x is numeric, then add scale_x_continuous(); if x is character/factor, then add scale_x_discrete(). This might solve your problem.

回答3:

In my case, you need to convert the column(you think this column is numeric, but actually not) to numeric

geom_segment(data=tmpp, 
   aes(x=start_pos, 
   y=lib.complexity, 
   xend=end_pos, 
   yend=lib.complexity)
)
# to 
geom_segment(data=tmpp, 
   aes(x=as.numeric(start_pos), 
   y=as.numeric(lib.complexity), 
   xend=as.numeric(end_pos), 
   yend=as.numeric(lib.complexity))
)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29278153/plotting-with-ggplot2-error-discrete-value-supplied-to-continuous-scale-on-c

标签

ggplot2

scale

categorical-data

r-factor