Specifying the scale for the density in ggplot2's stat_density2d

Question

I\'m looking to create multiple density graphs, to make an \"animated heat map.\"

Since each frame of the animation should be comparable, I\'d like the density -> co

Answer 1

I would like to leave an update for this question. As of July 2016, stat_density2d is not taking breaks any more. In order to reproduce the graphic, you need to move breaks=1e-6*seq(0,10,by=2) to scale_alpha_continuous().

set.seed(4)
g = list(NA,NA)
for (i in 1:2) {
    sdev = runif(1)
    X = rnorm(1000, mean = 512, sd= 300*sdev)
    Y = rnorm(1000, mean = 384, sd= 200*sdev)
    this_df = as.data.frame( cbind(X = X,Y = Y, condition = 1:2) )

g[[i]] = ggplot(data= this_df, aes(x=X, y=Y) ) +
         geom_point(aes(color= as.factor(condition)), alpha= .25) +
         coord_cartesian(ylim= c(0, 768), xlim= c(0,1024)) +
         scale_y_reverse() +
         stat_density2d(mapping= aes(alpha = ..level.., color= as.factor(condition)),
         geom="contour", bins=4, size= 2) +
         scale_alpha_continuous(limits=c(0,1e-5), breaks=1e-6*seq(0,10,by=2))+
         scale_color_discrete("Condition")
    }

do.call(grid.arrange,c(g,ncol=2))

Answer 2

So to have both plots show contours with the same levels, use the breaks=... argument in stat_densit2d(...). To have both plots with the same mapping of alpha to level, use scale_alpha_continuous(limits=...).

Here is the full code to demonstrate:

library(ggplot2)
set.seed(4)
g = list(NA,NA)
for (i in 1:2) {
  sdev = runif(1)
  X = rnorm(1000, mean = 512, sd= 300*sdev)
  Y = rnorm(1000, mean = 384, sd= 200*sdev)
  this_df = as.data.frame( cbind(X = X,Y = Y, condition = 1:2) )

  g[[i]] = ggplot(data= this_df, aes(x=X, y=Y) ) + 
    geom_point(aes(color= as.factor(condition)), alpha= .25) +
    coord_cartesian(ylim= c(0, 768), xlim= c(0,1024)) + scale_y_reverse() +
    stat_density2d(mapping= aes(alpha = ..level.., color= as.factor(condition)), 
                   breaks=1e-6*seq(0,10,by=2),geom="contour", bins=4, size= 2)+
    scale_alpha_continuous(limits=c(0,1e-5))+
    scale_color_discrete("Condition")
}
library(gridExtra)
do.call(grid.arrange,c(g,ncol=2))

And the result...