Oops, sorry, I left out a step in that last post After replace NAs with 0 in Xwide...
# use distance col as row names rownames( Xwide ) <- Xwide[ , 1 ] Xwide <- Xwide[ , -1 ] kiteChart( Xwide ) On 13 October 2010 19:49, Michael Bedward <michael.bedw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Ellen, > > First up I think you can use reshape to get your data into a form that > kiteChart will work with... > > # assuming your matrix or data.frame is called X > Xwide <- reshape(X, timevar="depth", idvar="distance", direction="wide") > > # replace NAs with 0 (don't think kiteChart likes NA) > Xwide[ is.na(Xwide) ] <- 0 > > kiteChart(Xwide) > > I haven't considered all of your plot requirements here but hopefully > this will get you started. > > Michael > > > > > On 13 October 2010 19:11, elpape <ellen.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear everyone, >> >> I would like to create a kite chart in which I plot densities (width of the >> vertical kites) in relation to sediment depth (on reversed y-axis) for 6 >> different locations (Distances from seep site, on x-axis on top of the >> plot). The dataset I would like to use is: >> >> >> Distance_from_seep_site Sedimentdepth Density >> 1100 0 107.8 >> 1100 1 264.6 >> 1100 2 284.2 >> 1100 3 470.4 >> 1100 4 58.8 >> 100 0 98 >> 100 1 176.4 >> 100 2 499.8 >> 100 3 548.8 >> 100 4 401.8 >> 100 5 107.8 >> 10 0 51.3 >> 10 1 22.8 >> 10 2 79.8 >> 10 3 68.4 >> 10 4 17.1 >> 10 5 5.7 >> 10 6 17.1 >> 5 0 188.1 >> 5 1 267.9 >> 5 2 376.2 >> 5 3 233.7 >> 5 4 165.3 >> 5 8 5.7 >> 5 9 5.7 >> 2 0 74.1 >> 2 1 102.6 >> 2 2 85.5 >> 2 3 91.2 >> 2 4 34.2 >> 2 5 5.7 >> 2 6 11.4 >> 2 8 11.4 >> 2 10 28.5 >> 2 11 22.8 >> 0 0 461.7 >> 0 1 273.6 >> 0 2 79.8 >> 0 3 68.4 >> 0 4 34.2 >> 0 5 22.8 >> 0 6 51.3 >> 0 8 68.4 >> 0 9 39.9 >> 0 11 22.8 >> >> I have tried to rearrange the data, but I do not seem to get the output that >> I desire... >> >> Can anyone help me? >> >> Thank you so much! >> Ellen >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/vertical-kites-in-KiteChart-plotrix-tp2993295p2993295.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.