Thank you very much. This is exactly what I was looking for. And thanks for 
your patients; this is my first forray into J (which is helping me avoid doing 
Ruby On Rails).

Regards

t

-------- Original Message --------
From: "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Apparently from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Jgeneral] plotting collected data
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:47:32 +1200

> I don't think you can give text as "x values". You can however have text
> x axis labels.
> The following command should give you what you want.
> 
> 'bar;xlabel "apples" "oranges" "red plum" "oranges"' plot 3 2 5 3
> (note the quotes are only necessary if your labels contain more than one
> word each)
> 
> If you have to start from your tally, you could create this command as
> follows (I'm sure others will have more elegant methods!!)
> 
> tally
> +--------+-+
> |apples  |3|
> +--------+-+
> |oranges |2|
> +--------+-+
> |red plum|5|
> +--------+-+
> |oranges |3|
> +--------+-+
>    ('bar;xlabel ',' 'makecsv{."1 tally) plot ;{:"1 tally
> 
> Where makecsv is an edited version of writecsv from the csv script, that
> takes an optional left argument.
>    
> makecsv=: 3 : 0
>   ',' makecsv y
> :
>   dat=. ,each 8!:2 each y
>   f=. '"'&,@(,&('"',x))@(#~ >:@(=&'"'))
>   dat=. f each dat
>   f=. <@(,&LF)@}:@;
>   dat=. ;f"1 dat
> )
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2007 02:30
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Jgeneral] plotting collected data
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a tally of some data in box form.
> > 
> >        -----------------
> >        | apples   | 3  |
> >        ----------------- 
> >        | oranges  | 2  |
> >        ----------------- 
> >        | red plum | 5  |
> >        ----------------- 
> >        | oranges  | 3  |
> >        ----------------- 
> > 
> > and would like to box plot it. 
> > 
> > According to plot data I can use a boxed array. Unfortunately 
> > I'm not sure how to get my tally into a boxed array. I tried 
> > 
> 
> I think when it talks about a "boxed array" it means this:
> +---------+--------------+
> |0 1 2 3 4|90 47 58 29 22|
> +---------+--------------+
> Where the first box is a list of x values, and the 2nd is the list of y
> values
> 'bar' plot (i.5);[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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