Syntax error How to change the default type of points for scatterplot using ggplot2 in R?

How to change the default type of points for scatterplot using ggplot2 in R?

To change the defaults for ggplot2 geoms, we need to use update_geom_defaults function. If we want to change the shape of points for scatterplot, we can use the below syntax −

update_geom_defaults("point",list(shape=”point_shape_number”))

The point shape number ranges from 0 to 25. We can change that according to our need.

Consider the below data frame −

Example

 Live Demo

x<-rnorm(20)
y<-rnorm(20,5,0.32)
df<-data.frame(x,y)
df

Output

        x           y
1  -0.005184157  5.338089
2  -1.044878945  4.662460
3  1.154191529   5.450373
4  -0.437975797  4.649176
5  -0.220793320  5.057522
6  -0.062619288  5.003642
7  -1.023676613  4.949002
8  0.902098608   4.632925
9  -0.259247125  4.792074
10 0.305164402   5.745798
11 -0.891792853  4.458326
12 -0.451765777  4.435208
13 -0.018278677  5.525500
14 0.917192389   4.740232
15 -1.366201294  5.363222
16 -0.491698757  5.305723
17 0.680064934   5.406010
18 -1.058529703  5.084462
19 1.862063812   4.851102
20 0.433153374   4.346126

Loading ggplot2 package and creating a scatterplot between x and y −

Example

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_point()

Output

Updating point type for scatterplot of ggplot2 package and creating the plot −

Example

update_geom_defaults("point",list(shape=6))
ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_point()

Output

Updated on: 2021-02-08T06:35:49+05:30

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