On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Daisy Englert Duursma <daisy.duur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello r-help. > > I have been working on making a graph and have several solutions but > they are tedious at best. > > Here is an example dataset: > > catg<-(c(1,2,3,2,4,3,2,1,4,3,1)) > min<-(c(1,2,3,3,4,5,6,6,3,2,1)) > max <-(c(10,6,8,6,7,3,10,9,10,8,9)) > cbind(min,max,catg) > > What I want to create is a basically a bar chart, but I define the > min (min) and max (max) for the bars. > These bars are separated into three categories (catg). Within each > category the bars are allowed to overlap. I set the bars to have a > transparent color so that I can see agreement of the items within a > category based on the darkness of color. > > One method I came up with, is to use ggplot2 and geom_tile but then I > have to give x,y coordinates for every corner of every box. > Considering the size of my real datasets, and not this little example > dataset, this seems annoying. > > I could even just graph lines with the defined min and max. With that > I could make the lines thick and achieve the effect I am looking for. > > Hopefully I have missed an obvious method to graph this.
One option to look at is segplot() in the latticeExtra package. -Deepayan ______________________________________________ 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.