Software and Programmer Efficiency Research Group

A geom that draws a polygon.

Default statistic: stat_identity
Default position adjustment: position_identity

Parameters

• group - (default: interaction of all categorical variables in the plot) how to group observations into polygons (each observation represents one point of a polygon)
• x - (required) x-coordinate of the polygon's points
• y - (required) y-coordinate of the polygon's points
• size - (default: 0.5) line width of the polygon's outline
• linetype - (default: 1=solid) line type of the polygon's outline
• color - (default: NA=no outline) color of the polygon's outline
• fill - (default: "grey20") fill color of the polygon
• alpha - (default: 1=opaque) transparency of the polygon's fill

Example

The following example shows how a data frame can define multiple polygons (in this example, two polygons). We add two extra layers to show the points (colored by polygon) and to label each point (with the observation=point number).

d=data.frame(x=c(1,2,2, 3,4,4), y=c(1,1,2, 2,2,3), t=c('a', 'a', 'a',  'b', 'b', 'b'), r=c(1,2,3, 4,5,6))
ggplot() +
geom_polygon(data=d, mapping=aes(x=x, y=y, group=t)) +
geom_point(data=d, aes(x=x, y=y, color=t)) +
geom_text(data=d, aes(x=x, y=y, label=r), hjust=0, vjust=1, size=4) +
opts(title="geom_polygon", plot.title=theme_text(size=40, vjust=1.5))