geom_smooth in ggplot2 not working/showing up

Question

I am trying to add a linear regression line to my graph, but when it's run, it's not showing up. The code below is simplified. There are usually multiple points on each day. The graph comes out fine other than that.

    b<-data.frame(day=c('05/22','05/23','05/24','05/25','05/26','05/27','05/28','05/29','05/30','05/31','06/01','06/02','06/03','06/04','06/05','06/06','06/07','06/08','06/09','06/10','06/11','06/12','06/13','06/14','06/15','06/16','06/17','06/18','06/19','06/20','06/21','06/22','06/23','06/24','06/25'),
                  temp=c(10.1,8.7,11.4,11.4,11.6,10.7,9.6,11.0,10.0,10.7,9.5,10.3,8.4,9.0,10.3,11.3,12.7,14.5,12.5,13.2,16.5,19.1,14.6,14.0,15.3,13.0,10.1,8.4,4.6,4.3,4.7,2.7,1.6,1.8,1.9))


gg2 <- ggplot(b, aes(x=day, y=temp, color=temp)) +
  geom_point(stat='identity', position='identity', aes(colour=temp),size=3)


gg2<- gg2 + geom_smooth(method='lm') + scale_colour_gradient(low='yellow', high='#de2d26') 

gg2 <-gg2 + labs(title=filenames[s], x='Date', y='Temperture (Celsius)') + theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=-45, vjust=0.5))


gg2

It's probably something really simple, but I can't seem to figure it out. Or it's the fact I am using a date for the x-axis, but I'm not receiving any errors. If it is due to the date, I'm not sure how to approach it. Thanks.

Morrismorrison

you need to make day a numerical variable, as in ...ggplot(b, aes(x = as.numeric(day),... – Commute

Answer 1

Currently your date is a factor since you entered in in as a character vector. See class(b$day).

Once you change it to a date, the linear regression will run fine.

b$Day <- as.Date(b$day, format='%m/%d')
# If dates are from 2015, 
# b$Day <- as.Date(b$day, format='%m/%d') - 366
# check with head(b$Day)

gg2 <- ggplot(b, aes(x=Day, y=temp, color=temp)) +
  geom_point(stat='identity', position='identity', aes(colour=temp),size=3)

gg2<- gg2 + geom_smooth(method='lm') + 
  scale_colour_gradient(low='yellow', high='#de2d26') 

gg2 <-gg2 + labs(title=filenames[s], x='Date', y='Temperture (Celsius)') + 
  theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=-45, vjust=0.5))

g2

Bullyboy

Thank you very much. I figured it was something simple that I was missing. – Morrismorrison

Lifesaver! Thanks. – Mobilize

Answer 2

# sample data
d <- data.frame(expand.grid(x=letters[1:4], g=factor(1:2)), y=rnorm(8))   
# Try the below three different scripts to draw.
ggplot(d, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=g)) + geom_line() + geom_point()
ggplot(d, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=g, group=g))+ geom_line() + geom_point()
ggplot(d, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=g, group=1)) + geom_line() + geom_point()

Key rules: geom_line() tries to connect data points that belong to same group. different levels of factor variable belong to different group.

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