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how to change colors in jitter plots (ggplot2)?

Hi

I made a jitter plots with 3 data set overlaied in a single plot. What I tried to do was setting each data different colors, but the colors weren't changed right. The colors seemed to be automatically assigned to each data set. Does anyone know the reason here?

Here's the R code

ggplot(
  All,
  aes(
    x=chr,y=log10_FI.MI)
  ) + guides(colour=FALSE) + 
ylim(c(-1.5,1.5)) +
geom_jitter(
  alpha=1,
  size=2,
  position=position_jitter(width=0.4),
  aes(color="blue")
) + 
geom_jitter(
  data=All,
  aes(x=chr,y=log10_FN.MI,color="red"),
  alpha=0.5,
  size=2,
  position=position_jitter(width=0.4)
) + 
geom_jitter(
  data=All,
  aes(x=chr,y=log10_MN.MI,color="grey"),
  alpha=0.5,
  size=2,
  position=position_jitter(width=0.4)
)

and the plot

R-plot

Thank you!

ggplot2 r jitter-plot
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updated by Ram Ram • written by mbk0asis mbk0asis

1 answer

Hi there,

I think you are not using ggplot2 as you have to. To represent data with ggplot2, you have to set your data to long format, it means all samples in the same data-frame. In your case, the data frame will be:

sample_name           chromosome             log10_FI.MI
sample1                   1                     -1
sample1                   2                     +1
....
sample2                   1                    -0.5
sample2                   2                    +0.24
....
sample3                   1                      +1
....

You see? Then, when you will plot your data, in "aes", you will choose color = sample_name if you want to attribute a color for each one. However, if you want your proper color, you can use a vector color = c("red", "blue", "green").

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updated by Ram Ram • written by glihm glihm

Thank you! So where should I put the vector colors? I'm a newbie, so please bear with me...

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written by mbk0asis mbk0asis

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