R Data Analysis Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

How it works...

Let's start from the top and discuss various parts of the plot:

> plot <- ggplot(bike,aes(temp,cnt))

First, we draw the plot. At this point, the graph is not printed as we have not added layers to it. ggplot needs at least one layer to display the graph. Next we add points to produce the scatter plot using the geom_point geometry:

plot + geom_point(size=3, aes(color=factor(windspeed)))

We can use various arguments to control how the points appear--the color of the dots and the size and shape of the dots. We can also use the aes argument to add aesthetics to this layer as well:

geom_smooth(method="lm", se=FALSE, col="red")

Adding geom_smooth helps you see a pattern. The method=lm argument uses a linear model as the smoothing ...