Nonparametric regression ggplot - r

Question

I'm trying to plot some nonparametric regression curves with ggplot2. I achieved It with the base plot()function:
library(KernSmooth)
set.seed(1995)
X <- runif(100, -1, 1)
G <- X[which (X > 0)]
L <- X[which (X < 0)]
u <- rnorm(100, 0 , 0.02)
Y <- -exp(-20*L^2)-exp(-20*G^2)/(X+1)+u
m <- lm(Y~X)
plot(Y~X)
abline(m, col="red")
m2 <- locpoly(X, Y, bandwidth = 0.05, degree = 0)
lines(m2$x, m2$y, col = "red")
m3 <- locpoly(X, Y, bandwidth = 0.15, degree = 0)
lines(m3$x, m3$y, col = "black")
m4 <- locpoly(X, Y, bandwidth = 0.3, degree = 0)
lines(m4$x, m4$y, col = "green")
legend("bottomright", legend = c("NW(bw=0.05)", "NW(bw=0.15)", "NW(bw=0.3)"),
lty = 1, col = c("red", "black", "green"), cex = 0.5)
With ggplot2 have achieved plotting the linear regression:
With this code:
ggplot(m, aes(x = X, y = Y)) +
geom_point(shape = 1) +
geom_smooth(method = lm, se = FALSE) +
theme(axis.line = element_line(colour = "black", size = 0.25))
But I dont't know how to add the other lines to this plot, as in the base R plot. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Solution
The shortest solution (though not the most beautiful one) is to add the lines using the data= argument of the geom_line function:
ggplot(m, aes(x = X, y = Y)) +
geom_point(shape = 1) +
geom_smooth(method = lm, se = FALSE) +
theme(axis.line = element_line(colour = "black", size = 0.25)) +
geom_line(data = as.data.frame(m2), mapping = aes(x=x,y=y))
Beautiful solution
To get beautiful colors and legend, use
# Need to convert lists to data.frames, ggplot2 needs data.frames
m2 <- as.data.frame(m2)
m3 <- as.data.frame(m3)
m4 <- as.data.frame(m4)
# Colnames are used as names in ggplot legend. Theres nothing wrong in using
# column names which contain symbols or whitespace, you just have to use
# backticks, e.g. m2$`NW(bw=0.05)` if you want to work with them
colnames(m2) <- c("x","NW(bw=0.05)")
colnames(m3) <- c("x","NW(bw=0.15)")
colnames(m4) <- c("x","NW(bw=0.3)")
# To give the different kernel density estimates different colors, they must all be in one data frame.
# For merging to work, all x columns of m2-m4 must be the same!
# the merge function will automatically detec columns of same name
# (that is, x) in m2-m4 and use it to identify y values which belong
# together (to the same x value)
mm <- Reduce(x=list(m2,m3,m4), f=function(a,b) merge(a,b))
# The above line is the same as:
# mm <- merge(m2,m3)
# mm <- merge(mm,m4)
# ggplot needs data in long (tidy) format
mm <- tidyr::gather(mm, kernel, y, -x)
ggplot(m, aes(x = X, y = Y)) +
geom_point(shape = 1) +
geom_smooth(method = lm, se = FALSE) +
theme(axis.line = element_line(colour = "black", size = 0.25)) +
geom_line(data = mm, mapping = aes(x=x,y=y,color=kernel))
Solution which will settle this for everyone and for eternity
The most beautiful and reproducable way though will be to create a custom stat in ggplot2 (see the included stats in ggplot).
There is this vignette of the ggplot2 team to this topic: Extending ggplot2. I have never undertaken such a heroic endeavour though.