I gave it a try with conventional plot and it does not look easy to get a good result.
x <- "YRKE SAMHM INDM Ambassadör 8.32 7.2771 Läkare 8.15 8.1029 Domare 8.14 7.5965 Professor 8.13 7.5618 Advokat 7.95 7.1876 Pilot 7.81 7.4380 Verkställande.direktör 7.78 6.8361 Forskare 7.60 7.6630 Civilingenjör 7.47 6.8802 Statsråd 7.41 6.3916 " status <- read.table(textConnection(x), header=TRUE) xx1 <- c(rep(1,10)) xx2 <- c(rep(2,10)) plot(xx1, status[,2], xaxt='s', yaxt='s', xlim=c(.5,2.5), ylim=c(min(status[,3]),max(status[,2])), type='p', xlab="", ylab="") points(xx2,status[,3]) segments(xx1,status[,2],xx2,status[,3]) text(xx1-.1,status[,2], labels=status[,1], cex=.6) text(xx2+.1, status[,3], labels=status[,1], cex=.6) --- Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello r-help! > > I have data with two kind of ratings on status of > 100 occupations. The > first kind of rating is on the percieved "objective" > status that these > occupations have in society at large, and the second > kind or rating is > on the status that the respondents think that these > occuption *should* > have. > > The ratings were originally integer values in the > rage 1-9, but in the > current data, I use their mean values. > > Here is an printout for the first 10 occupations: > (the occupation > names are in swedish) > > > data.frame(myobj[1:10, c("YRKE", "SAMHM", > "INDM")], row.names = "YRKE") > SAMHM INDM > Ambassadör 8.32 7.2771 > Läkare ("doctor") 8.15 8.1029 > Domare ("judge") 8.14 7.5965 > Professor 8.13 7.5618 > Advokat ("lawyer") 7.95 7.1876 > Pilot 7.81 7.4380 > Verkställande direktör 7.78 6.8361 > Forskare ("scientist" 7.60 7.6630 > Civilingenjör ("engineer") 7.47 6.8802 > Statsråd ("minister") 7.41 6.3916 > > > > I would like to make a plot with two lists. The > first list should list > the occupations ordered by "SAMHM" (as in the > printout above) and the > values of SAMH. The linespacing in this list should > be increased by > the difference in SAMH between the the occupations > (i.e. between > "Ambassadör" and "Läkare" (eng. "doctor") there > should be a larger > linespaceing than between "Läkare" and "Domare" > (eng. "judge")). > > The second list should be like the first, but based > on "INDM" instead > of "SAMH". > > These two list should ideally be plotted side by > side with lines > connecting each occuption. > > Here is an ascii-art illustration of what I intend > (excluding the > connecting lines, which are hard to draw with ascii > :-) > > -------------------------------------- > Ambassadör > > Läkare ("doctor") > Domare ("judge") > Professor Läkare > > Advokat ("lawyer") > > Pilot > Verkställande direktör > > Forskare ("scientist") Forskare > Domare > Civilingenjör ("engineer") Professor > Statsråd ("minister") Pilot > Ambassadör > Advokat > > > Civilingenjör > Verkställande direktör > > > Statsråd > ---------------------------------------------- > > If printing strings (labels) with different > linespacing turns out to > be problematic, another solution would be to print a > list of the > occupations ordered by "SAMH", points of "SAMH" > values (with > Y="SAMH"), points of "INDM" (with Y="INDM") and a > list of occupations > ordered by "INDM", with a line for each occupation > connecting the > labels with the points and the two points that > represents the > occupation. > > Since there are a lot of functions for ploting and I > am new to R, I > would like advise on what packages/functions that > should be used to > get what I want (if what I want is possible to > achieve with R, if it > is not, then please let me know). > > Sample code is, of course, also very much > appreciated. > > kind regards, > > -- > Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of > discussion > Q. Why is top posting bad? > > ______________________________________________ > 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.