Combine Points with lines with ggplot2

Question

I would like to plot a time series that look like this:

what I plot wi

Answer 1

A small change to Paul's code so that it doesn't return the error mentioned above.

dat = melt(subset(iris, select = c("Sepal.Length","Sepal.Width", "Species")),
           id.vars = "Species")
dat$x <- c(1:150, 1:150)
ggplot(aes(x = x, y = value, color = variable), data = dat) +  
  geom_point() + geom_line()

Answer 2

You may find that using the `group' aes will help you get the result you want. For example:

tu <- expand.grid(Land       = gl(2, 1, labels = c("DE", "BB")),
                  Altersgr   = gl(5, 1, labels = letters[1:5]),
                  Geschlecht = gl(2, 1, labels = c('m', 'w')),
                  Jahr       = 2000:2009)

set.seed(42)
tu$Wert <- unclass(tu$Altersgr) * 200 + rnorm(200, 0, 10)

ggplot(tu, aes(x = Jahr, y = Wert, color = Altersgr, group = Altersgr)) + 
  geom_point() + geom_line() + 
  facet_grid(Geschlecht ~ Land)

Which produces the plot found here:

Answer 3

The following example using the iris dataset works fine:

dat = melt(subset(iris, select = c("Sepal.Length","Sepal.Width", "Species")),
      id.vars = "Species")
ggplot(aes(x = 1:nrow(iris), y = value, color = variable), data = dat) +  
      geom_point() + geom_line()