xkcd (version 0.0.3)

xkcdrect: Plots rectangles

Description

This function plots rectangles.

Usage

xkcdrect(mapping, data,...)

Arguments

mapping

Mapping between variables and aesthetics generated by aes. See Details.

data

Dataset used in this layer.

...

Optional arguments.

Value

• A layer with the rectangles.

Details

It plots rectangles. The following aesthetics are required:

1. xmin
2. ymin
3. xmax
4. ymax

Additionally, you can use the aesthetics of geom_rect, geom_path, and pointssegment.

See Also

geom_rect

Examples

volunteers <- data.frame(year=c(2007:2011),
                         number=c(56470, 56998,59686, 61783, 64251))
p <- ggplot() + xkcdrect(aes(xmin = year,
                             xmax= year +0.3,
                             ymin=number,
                             ymax = number + 3600),
                         volunteers,
                         fill="red", colour="black")
p