r - group by two columns in ggplot2

Question

Is it possible to group by two columns? So the cross product is drawn by geom_point() and geom_smooth()?

As example:

frame <- data.frame(
 series <- rep(c('a', 'b'), 6), 
 sample <- rep(c('glass','water', 'metal'), 4), 
 data <- c(1:12))

ggplot(frame, aes()) # ...

Such that the points 6 and 12 share a group, but not with 3.

Answer 1

Taking the example from this question, using interaction to combine two columns into a new factor:

# Data frame with two continuous variables and two factors 
set.seed(0)
x <- rep(1:10, 4)
y <- c(rep(1:10, 2)+rnorm(20)/5, rep(6:15, 2) + rnorm(20)/5)
treatment <- gl(2, 20, 40, labels=letters[1:2])
replicate <- gl(2, 10, 40)
d <- data.frame(x=x, y=y, treatment=treatment, replicate=replicate)

ggplot(d, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=treatment, shape = replicate,
  group=interaction(treatment, replicate))) + 
  geom_point() + geom_line()