Map with ggplot2 and bubbles

Question

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I've tried to plot a map of magnitude earthquakes in Colombia with ggplot. After many efforts, I got it. But, I need to focus in specially area where the data of magnitudes is (4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 5). When I use the same script for this data, I get this:

"Error: Discrete value supplied to continuous scale".

I've used many solutions in blogs but it does not work.

This is my first map and the script

santos <- readOGR("Departamentos_WGS84.shp","Departamentos_WGS84")
map <- fortify(santos)
datos=read.table("coord.txt",header=T,dec=",",sep=";")
myData = data.frame(datos)
gg <- ggplot()
gg <- gg + geom_map(data=map, map=map,
 aes(x=long, y=lat, map_id=id, group=group),
 fill="#fffcfc", color="#0e0e0e", size=0.15) + 
 geom_point(data=myData, 
 aes(x=long, y=lat, size=Magnitud), color = "red",shape = 21) +
 scale_size(range = c(0, 8)) + 
 coord_map() + 
 theme_bw() + 
 labs(x=NULL, y=NULL) + 
 theme(panel.grid=element_blank()) + 
 theme(panel.border=element_rect())
 gg

• Camilo Andres: I do not understand your question. My data are coordinates (longitude and latitutde) associated with a magnitude. I hope this answers your question.
• rcs: what is the output of this command class(myData$Magnitud)? factor or numeric (this could be the source of your error)
• lukeA: I guess myData$long and/or myData$lat are character values ("discrete"), because the read.table does not work as expected. And that does not match with map$long, which is numeric. Maybe you can add the output of str(map) and str(myData).
• Camilo Andres: Excuse me! With class(myData$Magnitud), I got "factor".
• rcs: this should be numeric

Answer 1

I solved this problem with these instructions:

myData$longitude = as.numeric(as.character(myData$longitude))
myData$Magnitude = as.numeric(as.character(myData$Magnitude))
myData$latitude = as.numeric(as.character(myData$latitude))