Use alpha values provided in data

Question

I would like to use the explicit values for the alpha level.

head(D) x y group alpha 1 1 18 A 0.40 <~~~~ 2 2 18 A 0.44 3 3 18 A 0.47 4 1 18 A 0.51 5 2 21 B 0.55 6 3 21 B 0.58 ...

However, ggplot is scaling the alpha levels. I can override this using scale_alpha_continuous(range = range(D$alpha)), but this becomes a nuisance when creating the graph programmatically.

Is there a direct way to tell ggplot NOT to scale alpha? (instead of telling it what range to scale to)

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library(ggplot) library(gridExtra) (D <- data.frame(x=rep(1:3, 4), y=rep((6:8)*3, each=4), group=rep(c("A","B", "C"), each=4), alpha=round(seq(.4, .8, length.out=12), 2))) P <- ggplot(data=D, aes(x=x, y=y, alpha=alpha)) + geom_bar(stat="identity", fill="blue") + theme(legend.position="bottom") + facet_grid(group ~. ) ### Adding scale_alpha_continuous P.manually_scaled <- P + scale_alpha_continuous(range=range(D$alpha)) grid.arrange( P + ggtitle("INCORRECT") , P.manually_scaled + ggtitle("CORRECT") , ncol=2)

Didzis Elferts · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-14 15:13:02Z

If you have actual alpha, color, ..., values then you should use ..identity() scales. This will tell ggplot() to assign alpha values as they are in your data frame and not to scale them.

ggplot(data=D, aes(x=x, y=y, alpha=alpha)) + geom_bar(stat="identity", fill="blue") + facet_grid(group ~. ) + scale_alpha_identity()

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