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Larry V
Larry V

Reputation: 143

How to programatically isolate one line out of a series of lines in ggplot

I've spent a day hacking and searching on this. Hoping someone can help. I'm plotting a series of downloads for a season of shows. I want to isolate one episode and give it a color while leaving the other lines neutral. I've done this before with geom_point plots using ifelse. Nothing I've tried with geom_line works. I have a feeling the solution is simple, so forgive me if it's right in front of me. I know I can do this by manually forcing a scale with a defined vector of colors, but I want to switch up the variables and don't want to have to recreate a vector with color values by hand every time.

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library(plyr)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

set.seed(407)
getResults <- function(ep_title) {
  days_in_release <- c(1:5)
  downloads <- rbinom(5, 1000, .2)
  cum_downloads <- cumsum(downloads)
  data.frame(days_in_release, downloads, cum_downloads, ep_title)
}

eps <- c("Foo", "Bar", "Gamma", "Ray", "Comet")

season <- lapply(eps, getResults)
season_tidy <- rbind.fill(season)

season_tidy %>% 
  ggplot(aes(days_in_release, cum_downloads, col = ep_title)) + 
  geom_line() +
  scale_color_manual(aes(color = ifelse("Foo" %in% ep_title, "red", "grey")))

Upvotes: 4

Views: 332

Answers (3)

markus
markus

Reputation: 26343

You could use gghighlight

library(gghighlight)
ggplot(season_tidy, aes(days_in_release, cum_downloads, col = ep_title)) + 
  geom_line() +
  gghighlight(ep_title == "Foo")

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Read the vignette for more details, vignette("gghighlight").

Upvotes: 2

M_M
M_M

Reputation: 909

Try this:

ggplot() + 
  geom_line(data = season_tidy %>% filter(ep_title == "Foo"), 
            aes(days_in_release, cum_downloads, group = ep_title), col="red") +
  geom_line(data = season_tidy %>% filter(ep_title != "Foo"), 
            aes(days_in_release, cum_downloads, group = ep_title), col = "grey")

You can also do what Ronak suggested but add the group arg to geom_line:

season_tidy %>%
   ggplot(aes(days_in_release, cum_downloads, group = ep_title)) + 
   geom_line(color = ifelse(season_tidy$ep_title == "Foo", "red", "grey"))

Upvotes: 1

Ronak Shah
Ronak Shah

Reputation: 388982

Do you mean something like this?

library(tidyverse)

season_tidy %>%
   ggplot(aes(days_in_release, cum_downloads, col = ep_title)) + 
   geom_line(color = ifelse(season_tidy$ep_title == "Foo", "red", "grey"))

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Upvotes: 1

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