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ggplot2: Plotting multiple vectors sequentially

Suppose I have two vectors, say

vec1 <- c(1,2,1,3)
vec2 <- c(3,3,2,4)


I want to plot both vectors in series, in different colors, on GGPlot. For example, to plot a single vector in series, I could simply do:

qplot(seq_along(vec1),vec1))


But I want to plot both in series, so we can pairwise compare the entries visually. The graph would look something like:

Thanks!

1 Answer
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We need to make a data frame from vec1 and vec2. Since ggplot2 prefers data in long format, we convert df to df_long using gather from the tidyr package (after creating id column using mutate function from the dplyr package). After that it's fairly easy to do the plotting.

vec1

vec2

ggplot2

df

df_long

gather

tidyr

id

mutate

dplyr

See this answer to learn more about changing the shape of the points

shape

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)

vec1 <- c(1,2,1,3)
vec2 <- c(3,3,2,4)

df <- data.frame(vec1, vec2)
df_long <- df %>%
mutate(id = row_number()) %>%
gather(key, value, -id)
df_long

#> id key value
#> 1 1 vec1 1
#> 2 2 vec1 2
#> 3 3 vec1 1
#> 4 4 vec1 3
#> 5 1 vec2 3
#> 6 2 vec2 3
#> 7 3 vec2 2
#> 8 4 vec2 4

ggplot(df_long, aes(x = id, y = value)) +
geom_point(aes(color = key, shape = key), size = 3) +
theme_classic(base_size = 16)


Created on 2018-08-08 by the reprex package (v0.2.0.9000).

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