Hi
r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 26.07.2010 13:38:44:
> Hello,
>
> my data.frame is sort of a collection of process values, i.e. huge
> run-chart. It consists of a time-stamp in the first column (date as
> string), factors in the following columns (used for subset-filtering),
> and some process-data columns.
> Hereafter, two examples are listed, showing the problems that occour
> during print:
>
> At first the example, that works fine:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> a = c(1:10) # create a vector of integers
> b = rep(c("a","b"),5) # create a vector of chars, used
> # as factor-levels
> d = rnorm(10) # some random numbers
> e = data.frame(a,b,d) # connect to a data.frame
>
> e.1 = subset(e, b=="a") # create two subsets
> e.2 = subset(e, b=="b")
> plot(d~a, e.1, pch=3, col=2) # plot first data-subset
Rather strange plot call. I usually call
plot(a, d, pch=as.numeric(as.factor(b))+2, col=as.numeric(as.factor(b))+1)
as you could have problem when some point in second subset is outside a
range of first subset.
> points(d~a, e.2, pch=4, col=3) # plot the 2nd one
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> all looks fine in theses plots.
>
>
> However, changing the content of vector "a" to a set of strings the
> following happens:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> a = c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j")
> e = data.frame(a,b,d) # re-build data.frame
>
> e.1 = subset(e, b=="a") # create two subsets
> e.2 = subset(e, b=="b")
> plot(d~a, e.1, pch=3, col=2)
> points(d~a, e.2, pch=4, col=3)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The plot-command produces horizontal lines instead of dots. This seems
> to happen when the x-axis contains strings rather than numbers. is there
> a way out?
You actually called boxplots hence lines and labels under x axis. The way
out depends on how do you want everything to be plotted. If "a vector" was
a factor you could use conversion to numeric representation by
a.n<-as.numeric(a)
and plot d against a.n with axis labels from a.
Try to go through
plot, plot.default, boxplot, factor
help pages
Regards
Petr
>
> Best regards,
> /Steffen
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