Error: Can't find `stat` called “identity”

[cystein]

I didn't find any results on my internet search. How to fix this error is caused?

My codes;

> library(ggplot2)
> 
> ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x=disp , y=wt)) + geom_point(stat = "identity")

result;

Error: Can't find stat called "identity"

My sessionInfo()

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.7.1
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.7.1

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=tr_TR.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=tr_TR.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=tr_TR.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=tr_TR.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=tr_TR.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=tr_TR.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_3.1.0 shiny_1.2.0  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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[10] tools_3.5.1        digest_0.6.18      viridisLite_0.3.0 
[13] jsonlite_1.5       tibble_1.4.2       gtable_0.2.0      
[16] pkgconfig_2.0.2    rlang_0.3.0.1      ggplotgui_1.0.0   
[19] rstudioapi_0.8     yaml_2.2.0         haven_1.1.2       
[22] bindrcpp_0.2.2     withr_2.1.2        stringr_1.3.1     
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[43] assertthat_0.2.0   xtable_1.8-3       mime_0.6          
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[romunov]

stat doesn't make sense for points as there are no statistics being calculated based on those points. This makes sense in the context of plotting e.g. bar plots (compare geom_bar, geom_col). Just omit this argument from geom_point.

[thomasp85]

It should work (and does on my computer)

It can easily make sense to use stat for geom_point in general, and the default is, in fact, identity

[cystein]

Thank for your reply. I changed my code;

`library(ggplot2)

ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x=disp , y=wt)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity")`

then run;

`> library(ggplot2)

ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x=disp , y=wt)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity")
Error: Can't find stat called "identity"`

Where am I making a mistake?

[thomasp85]

I believe something is wrong on your computer and not in your code. Can you try to reinstall ggplot2 and restart your session

[cystein]

I believe something is wrong on your computer and not in your code. Can you try to reinstall ggplot2 and restart your session

Yeah, I think the problem is on my computer. Although I uninstall and install the software, the result is the same :(

[thomasp85]

What do you get if you type stat_identity()in the console

[batpigandme]

Edit Follow Thomas' advice first 😉

Can you please render this as a reprex with "Append session info" selected? Magic reprex from the documentation will give you a nice overview of how it works, if you're not familiar.

Once you have the code on your clipboard, you can use the reprex add-in to select "Append session info" (see the selections below):

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = disp, y = wt)) +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity")

^{Created on 2018-11-14 by the reprex package (v0.2.1.9000)}

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[cystein]

> stat_identity() Error: Can't find position called "identity"

[cystein]

Mara Hi,

When I give the command to the R, I get this error.

`> reprex::reprex()
No input provided and clipboard is not available.
Rendering reprex...
Clipboard on X11 requires 'xclip' (recommended) or 'xsel'.
Unable to put result on the clipboard. How to get it:
  * Capture what `reprex()` returns.
  * Consult the output file. Control via `outfile` argument.
Path to `outfile`:
  * /tmp/Rtmpl2sHbh/reprex46211800f71/reprex_reprex.md`

[batpigandme]

If you run into problems with access to your clipboard, you can specify an infile and an outfile for the reprex, and then copy and paste the contents here.

reprex::reprex(input = "foo.R", outfile = "foo.md")

In your case you'll also want to add si = opt(TRUE) to that, since we'll want the session info.

[yutannihilation]

What's curious about this error is that ggplot2:::check_subclass() did find GeomPoint, but failed with PositionIdentity.

stat_identity() Error: Can't find `position` called "identity"

I know nothing about Turkish, but might it matter to capitalize "i" that it has dotted and dotless I...? (although I couldn't reproduce the error even if I set Sys.setlocale(locale = "tr_TR.UTF-8") on Mac)

[cystein]

I know nothing about Turkish, but might it matter to capitalize "i" that it has dotted and dotless I...? (although I couldn't reproduce the error even if I set Sys.setlocale(locale = "tr_TR.UTF-8") on Mac)

Hi Hiroaki,

You're right. This problem seems to be related to language settings. After logging in, I run "ggplot" without problems when I issue the following command.

> Sys.setlocale(locale = "en_GB.UTF-8") [1] "LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=tr_TR.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=tr_TR.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=tr_TR.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"

and then;

> stat_identity() geom_point: na.rm = FALSE stat_identity: na.rm = FALSE position_identity

Thank you..

[yutannihilation]

Oh, no... Thanks for confirmation!

Until we find out the universal version of toupper() (which is used here), please set the locale other than tr_TR as a workaround. Sorry for inconvenience.

Let me confirm one more thing. In the locale of tr_TR.UTF-8, the code below returns İ (U+0130, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE), right?

toupper("i")

[cystein]

sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.7.1
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.7.1

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=tr_TR.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=tr_TR.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
[7] base

other attached packages:
[1] RMySQL_0.10.15 DBI_1.0.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.1 tools_3.5.1 yaml_2.2.0

toupper("i")
[1] "İ"

Correct, thank you..

[yutannihilation]

Thanks!