Question

I want to plot a graph with different colors based on values. I wrote the below code,

np_graph <- data.frame(C1 = -5:5, C2 = -5:5)
x=np_graph2$C1
y=np_graph2$C2
plot(x,y,xlab="PC1",ylab="PC2")

Now, if the value of X is >0, then that value should be in green (in the graph). if the value of Y is >0, then that value should be in red (in the graph).

Can some one help me in this?

Answer 1

The argument col will set the colours, you could use this in conjunction with an ifelse statement. See ?plot for more details.

# using base plot
plot(x,y,xlab="PC1",ylab="PC2", col = ifelse(x < 0,'red','green'), pch = 19 )

To do the same thing in ggplot2.

#using ggplot2
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(np_graph) + geom_point(aes(x = C1, y = C2, colour = C1 >0)) +
  scale_colour_manual(name = 'PC1 > 0', values = setNames(c('red','green'),c(T, F))) +
  xlab('PC1') + ylab('PC2')