Hey Jim, Thanks for your reply!
I tried what you said, i still kept getting errors. here's what i want my graph to look like: http://i.imagehost.org/0474/Untitled_5.jpg i have x<-c("not stir", "stir") i can't plot it though :( Jim Lemon wrote: > > On 01/09/2010 12:38 PM, lse1986 wrote: >> Hi i want do a line graph. >> >> My y axis contains numeric values. My x axis contains non numeric >> statements. >> >> This is what i want the graph to look like. >> >> When i try to plot this graph on R it comes up with the following error >> message: >> >> "Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'xlim' values >> In addition: Warning messages: >> 1: In xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log) : NAs introduced by coercion >> 2: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf >> 3: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf" >> >> > Hi Sam, > While I don't know what you want the graph to look like, I would suggest > the following: > > xf<-factor(x) > plot(as.numeric(xf),rnorm(10),type="l",xaxt="n") > axis(1,at=1:10,labels=xf) > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Plotting-numeric-values-against-non-numeric-items-tp1010129p1010311.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.
