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• From: Gordon Robertson <grobertson at bcgsc.ca>
• Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 00:39:04 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks Bob,

Your solutions are compact. The code below extends your first example to use a long list of XY coordinates and colours in ListPlot.

nbr = 1000
xy = Transpose[{RandomReal[{0, 1}, nbr], RandomReal[{0, 1}, nbr]}]; (* xy data to plot *)
cols = Table[RandomChoice[{Red, Green, Blue}], {i, nbr}];  (* list of colors *)

ListPlot[List /@ xy, PlotStyle -> (Directive[PointSize[0.02], Opacity[0.6], #] & /@ cols)]

Gordon

On 2013-11-05, at 8:34 AM, Bob Hanlon wrote:

Make each point a separate data list and repeat the PointSize:

ListPlot[List /@ {{1, 1}, {2, 2}, {3, 3}},
 PlotStyle -> (Directive[PointSize[0.02], #] & /@
    {Red, Green, Blue})]

Although you can use a List instead of Directive:

ListPlot[List /@ {{1, 1}, {2, 2}, {3, 3}},
 PlotStyle -> ({PointSize[0.02], #} & /@
    {Red, Green, Blue})]

Alternatively,

ListPlot[List /@ {{1, 1}, {2, 2}, {3, 3}},
 PlotStyle -> {Red, Green, Blue},
 PlotMarkers -> {Automatic, Medium}]


Bob Hanlon


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Gordon Robertson <grobertson at bcgsc.ca<mailto:grobertson at bcgsc.ca>> wrote:

I'm using Mathematica v9.x on a Mac, with OS X 10.7.5.

Could I ask about something that likely has a very simple solution? I have a list of XY coordinates for say 500 points that will become a scatterplot via ListPlot. I need to assign a colour to each point, using a list of labels (histology, risk, =85).

I've generated ArrayPlot graphics for cases like this for some time. For example, given some labels in column 4 of a 'hist' table:
colours = Table[{
    Switch[name = hist[[i, 4]],
     "Classical", Green, "Tall cell", Red, "Other", Blue]
    }, {i, Length[hist]}];
 ArrayPlot[{colours}, AspectRatio -> 0.1, Frame -> False]

For a ListPlot, I'd have thought that something as simple as dropping a list of colours into a PlotStyle Directive would do the job. But the following line plots three blue points, rather than a Red, Green and Blue point.
ListPlot[{{1, 1}, {2, 2}, {3, 3}},
 PlotStyle -> Directive[PointSize[0.02], {Red, Green, Blue}]]

Is there a simple way to declare a list of colours in ListPlot? I've looked through the PlotStyle documentation, and apologize if I've missed seeing how to do this.

Thanks very much for your help.

Gordon
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