ggplot add a legend to manual curves

Question

x  <- seq(0, 50, 1) 
y1 <- exp(0.0509*x)
y2 <- exp(0.0519*x)
df <- data.frame(x,y1,y2)

ggplot(df, aes(x)) +                    
  geom_line(aes(y=y1), colour="blue") +  
  geom_line(aes(y=y2), colour="red")

According to the code, I would like how to add a legend called "group 1" for y1 and "group 2" for y2. I've tried many things that I've seen on this forum, but I always get an error.

well for instance i did geom_line(aes(y=y2), colour="red", labels="test") and I try so many things that I canot mention all of them — S12000, Jan 19 '14 at 05:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '14 at 06:54

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Use this:

library(reshape2)
library(ggplot2)
gg <- melt(df,id="x")
ggplot(gg, aes(x=x, y=value, color=variable))+
  geom_line()

answered Jan 19 '14 at 06:54

jlhoward

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