On Mar 28, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Agustin Lobo wrote: > Thanks for your detailed explanation. > You are right, a set of boxplots done with bwplot > is a much better graphic for this type of data: > > bwplot(V1~VAR|f,data=datos2) > > This was not a good example. The barplot would be suited > for counts, ie. species composition: > datos4 <- data.frame(V1=round(runif(200,1,5)),SITE=factor(round > (runif(200,1,3)))) > > where I would like a barplot of table(V1) for each site: > par(mfrow=c(3,1)) > barplot(table(datos4$V1[datos4$SITE==1])) > barplot(table(datos4$V1[datos4$SITE==2])) > barplot(table(datos4$V1[datos4$SITE==3])) > > I'll try with barchart!
Perhaps this: datos5 <- with(datos4,aggregate(rep(1,nrow(datos4)), list (V1=V1,SITE=SITE),sum)) barchart(x~ordered(V1)|SITE, data=datos5) > Is there an R guide to Trellis graphics? I found Paul Murrell's book useful. > Agus Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College > Charilaos Skiadas escribió: >> On Mar 27, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote: >>> Thanks, it was a matter of reshaping the data matrix as I usually >>> have >>> it, ie: >>> datos <- >>> data.frame(x=abs(round(rnorm(100,10,5))),y=abs(round(rnorm >>> (100,2,1))),f=factor(round(runif(100,1,3)))) >>> >>> to become: >>> >>> datos2 <- >>> data.frame(V1=c(datos[,1],datos[,2]),"VAR"=c(rep("x",100),rep("y", >>> 100)),f=factor(c(datos[,3],datos[,3]))) >>> >>> and then >>> require(lattice) >>> barchart(V1~VAR|f,data=datos2) >>> >>> I get horizontal lines in the bars that I do not understand, though. >> In order to understand the lines , you should ask: What does the >> height of each bar correspond to? As you have set things up, the >> "x" bar in panel "1" should somehow correspond to the all values: >> datos2$V1[datos2$VAR=="x" & datos2$f==1] >> [1] 15 13 14 1 18 14 8 12 7 19 10 1 5 14 7 9 14 7 5 10 6 >> 12 10 11 11 7 15 >> [28] 9 4 12 17 10 4 5 >> So you should ask yourself, how you expect R to produce a single >> column, which in some sense corresponds to just one single number, >> its height, from these different values. My guess is that you want >> R to show you just the mean on each group. For me this is not a >> barplot, but anyway. What happens in the barplot you have now, I >> think, is this that R will start by constructing a bar with height >> 15, then put on it a bar of height 13, then on it a bar of height >> 14 and so on. So the lines you see account for the boxes that >> survive: >> > x<-datos2$V1[datos2$VAR=="x" & datos2$f==1] >> > unique(cummax(rev(x))) >> [1] 5 10 17 19 >> I would recommend using boxplots instead of "barplots only showing >> the means". If you really want barplots of the means, I think you >> can do the following: >> datos3 <- with(datos2, aggregate(x=V1, by=list(VAR=VAR,f=f), mean)) >> barchart(x~VAR|f, datos3) >> Another option would be ggplot2 I think, but I'll let someone >> knowledgeable with that package speak up. >>> Agus >>> >> Haris Skiadas >> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science >> Hanover College > > -- > Dr. Agustin Lobo > Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) > LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n > 08028 Barcelona > Spain > Tel. 34 934095410 > Fax. 34 934110012 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ija.csic.es/gt/obster ______________________________________________ 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.