Scale for line patterns

Default line types based on a set supplied by Richard Pearson, University of Manchester. Continuous values can not be mapped to line types unless scale_linetype_binned() is used. Still, as linetypes has no inherent order, this use is not advised.

scale_linetype(name = waiver(), ..., aesthetics = "linetype")

scale_linetype_binned(name = waiver(), ..., aesthetics = "linetype")

scale_linetype_continuous(...)

scale_linetype_discrete(name = waiver(), ..., aesthetics = "linetype")

Arguments

name

The name of the scale. Used as the axis or legend title. If waiver(), the default, the name of the scale is taken from the first mapping used for that aesthetic. If NULL, the legend title will be omitted.

...

Arguments passed on to discrete_scale

breaks

One of:

• NULL for no breaks

• waiver() for the default breaks (the scale limits)

• A character vector of breaks

• A function that takes the limits as input and returns breaks as output. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.

limits

One of:

• NULL to use the default scale values

• A character vector that defines possible values of the scale and their order

• A function that accepts the existing (automatic) values and returns new ones. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.

drop

Should unused factor levels be omitted from the scale? The default, TRUE, uses the levels that appear in the data; FALSE includes the levels in the factor. Please note that to display every level in a legend, the layer should use show.legend = TRUE.

na.translate

Unlike continuous scales, discrete scales can easily show missing values, and do so by default. If you want to remove missing values from a discrete scale, specify na.translate = FALSE.

minor_breaks

One of:

• NULL for no minor breaks

• waiver() for the default breaks (none for discrete, one minor break between each major break for continuous)

• A numeric vector of positions

• A function that given the limits returns a vector of minor breaks. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation. When the function has two arguments, it will be given the limits and major break positions.

labels

One of the options below. Please note that when labels is a vector, it is highly recommended to also set the breaks argument as a vector to protect against unintended mismatches.

• NULL for no labels

• waiver() for the default labels computed by the transformation object

• A character vector giving labels (must be same length as breaks)

• An expression vector (must be the same length as breaks). See ?plotmath for details.

• A function that takes the breaks as input and returns labels as output. Also accepts rlang lambda function notation.

guide

A function used to create a guide or its name. See guides() for more information.

call

The call used to construct the scale for reporting messages.

super

The super class to use for the constructed scale

aesthetics

The names of the aesthetics that this scale works with.

Details

Lines can be referred to by number, name or hex code. Contrary to base R graphics, NAs are interpreted as blanks.

See also

The documentation for differentiation related aesthetics.

Other linetype scales: scale_linetype_manual(), scale_linetype_identity().

The line type section of the online ggplot2 book.

Examples

base <- ggplot(economics_long, aes(date, value01))
base + geom_line(aes(group = variable))

base + geom_line(aes(linetype = variable))


# See scale_manual for more flexibility

# Common line types ----------------------------
df_lines <- data.frame(
  linetype = factor(
    1:4,
    labels = c("solid", "longdash", "dashed", "dotted")
  )
)
ggplot(df_lines) +
  geom_hline(aes(linetype = linetype, yintercept = 0), linewidth = 2) +
  scale_linetype_identity() +
  facet_grid(linetype ~ .) +
  theme_void(20)