Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Ben Seligman
Hi Julia, I'm also a newcomer to R and to this listserv (in the past two weeks). One book that was recommended to me, and has been extraordinarily helpful in learning how to really make use of R, is A Beginner's Guide to R, which focuses on data entry/import, data manipulation, functions, and

[R] 2-character plotting characters?

2009-11-28 Thread Ben Seligman
I am trying to make a plot using the plot command in which I would like the plotting characters to be two-character strings (they're two-letter abbreviations of country names). I've tried the pch argument and this, of course, only produces 1-character strings. Looking through Intro to R and the

Re: [R] 2-character plotting characters?

2009-11-28 Thread Ben Seligman
Jim, thank you so much; that's exactly what I needed. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, jim holtman jholt...@gmail.com wrote: ?text You will have to plot your own text at each point that want. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Ben Seligman ben...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to make a plot