Colin Wahl wrote: > > I would rather use cleveland dot plots than bar charts to display my study > results. I have not been able to find (or figure out) an R package that is > capable of producing the publication quality dot charts Im looking for. I > have either not been able to get error bars (lattice), cannot order the > data display properly (latticeExtra), or cannot make adjustments to axes. > Does anyone have a quick suggestion for a package that can handle > cleveland dot plots well? >
Most of the things you mention can be accomplished within the lattice package, using panel functions and the scales= argument. The reorder() function will probably accomplish what you're looking for when you say "order the data display properly". A few years ago, I wrote a short paper on dotplots that you might find helpful: Jacoby, William G. 2006. "The Dotplot: A Graphical Display for Labeled Quantitative Values." The Political Methodologist 14(1): 6-14. A longer version of the paper is available http://polisci.msu.edu/jacoby/research/dotplots/ here . Both of these papers provide examples of the things you mention (error bars, reordering data, etc.). Hope this helps! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Cleveland-dot-plots-tp3581122p3582719.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.
