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Asked: 2026-05-20T11:18:55+00:00

I have a table that has two columns both of them are continuous data.

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I have a table that has two columns both of them are continuous data. I checked the csv file to make sure there are only numeric values in those columns. However, when I plot them one of them seems to be taken as non-continuous data, and I get: Error: Non-continuous variable supplied to scale_x_continuous.
This is a small version of my table

   budget    gross
1  234       4234
2  42342     2323
3  22165     346
4  290       452
...

I am trying to create a scatter plot where the gross numbers are in the y axis and the budget in the x axis.
I tried this but I get the fore-mentioned error.

p <- ggplot(test, aes(Budget, Gross))+geom_point(alpha=I(1/5), aes(colour=Budget))+ opts(titles="Movies per Year", panel.grid.major = theme_blank(), panel.grid.minor = theme_blank())+scale_x_continuous()

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try class(test$Budget). Odds are that R believes that your column is a factor. If that’s so, you can get around the problem by using the stringsAsFactors option, either inside of your read.csv():

    test <- read.csv(file = "yourdata.csv", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

    or set it for the entire session:

    options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

    From personal experience, I’d recommend the latter. I start all of my scripts that way, actually – most functions that need factors will coerce other vector types as necessary, and if they don’t, then I’ll manually specify it. But having a bunch of vectors lurking in your data will cause you nothing but headaches.

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