Hi
Can anyone please see why the error occurs?
ggplot(moviedata, aes(x= year, y=screens))+
stat_boxplot(geom= 'errorbar')+
geom_boxplot()+
theme_bw()+
labs(title = "movie Genre by the year")+
xlab("year")+
ylab("genre")+
ylim(5,25)
Error: Discrete value supplied to continuous scale
Hard to tell w/o knowing what your data looks like, but I suspect screens is stored as a factor or character. What does str(moviedata) tell you?
> str(moviedata)
'data.frame': 231 obs. of 15 variables:
$ movie : Factor w/ 231 levels "13 Sins","22 Jump Street",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
$ year : int 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 ...
$ ratings : num 6.3 7.1 6.2 6.3 4.7 4.6 6.1 7.1 6.5 6.1 ...
$ genre : int 8 1 1 1 8 3 8 1 10 8 ...
$ gross : int 9130 192000000 30700000 106000000 17300000 29000 42600000 5750000 26000000 48600000 ...
$ budget : Factor w/ 105 levels "100000","1000000",..: 68 77 56 7 64 75 69 42 56 12 ...
$ screens : Factor w/ 201 levels "103","1044","1061",..: 176 111 69 126 34 201 92 196 52 33 ...
$ sequel : int 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 ...
$ dummy_sequel : int NA 1 NA 1 1 NA NA NA NA NA ...
$ sentiment : int NA 2 NA NA NA NA NA 2 3 NA ...
$ views : int 3280543 583289 304861 452917 3145573 91137 3013011 1854103 2213659 5218079 ...
$ likes : int 4632 3465 328 2429 12163 112 9595 2207 2210 11709 ...
$ dislikes : int 425 61 34 132 610 7 419 197 419 532 ...
$ comments : int 636 186 47 590 1082 1 1020 593 382 770 ...
$ aggregate_followers: Factor w/ 191 levels "10070000","10280000",..: 10 20 136 145 61 108 172 27 22 73 ...
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the field screens is being stored as discrete values (Factors). You can't create a boxplot where the y data is discrete. If the data in screens can be converted to a number, you should do so. But you should really look at the data to make sure that makes sense.