Dear R Help,
I would be very grateful if somebody could explain why this is happening. I
am trying to plot a lattice barchart of a vector of numbers with age
bandings that I have brought together into a data frame. When I plot the
variables in their raw vector form, it works. When I try to plot them in
the df, R labels the numeric axis with default factor values and treats the
numeric vector as character. Why is this? Apologies if this is blindingly
obvious, I am new to R.
Here is some sample code that demonstrates the problem:
library(lattice)
# Load in some sample data ...
ageband <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18)
agenames <-
c("00-04","05-09","10-14","15-19","20-24","25-29","30-34","35-39",
"40-44","45-49","50-54","55-59","60-64","65-69","70-74","75-79","80-84","85
plus")
popcount <-
c(35274,40958,41574,47973,50384,51248,65748,54854,60948,66473,70854,
60475,61854,55848,45857,30584,25475,20574)
region <- "North East"
test1 <- as.data.frame(cbind(region,ageband,agenames,popcount))
region <- "North West"
test2 <- as.data.frame(cbind(region,ageband,agenames,popcount))
test <- rbind(test1,test2)
names(test) <- c("GOR","Band","AgeBand","Persons")
# When I plot my numeric data from the df it is treated as character
vector...
hg1 <- barchart(AgeBand ~ Persons | GOR,
data=test,
origin=0,
layout=c(2,1),
reference=TRUE,
xlab="Count (Persons)",
ylab="Quinary Age Band",
scales="free")
hg1
# But when I plot the source vectors in the same way, it works how I want it
to... (without the region bit, of course)
hg2 <- barchart(agenames ~ popcount | region,
origin=0,
layout=c(2,1),
reference=TRUE,
xlab="Count (Persons)",
ylab="Quinary Age Band",
scales="free")
hg2
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