Thanks Joshua. The two criteria are separate...
So I have to produce two separate plots... Thanks again! On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Although I do think ggplot2 does a superb job of elegant data > visualization; I am not sure any graphics package will do what you > want. I suspect you will first have to do some work binning your > data, and then plot in your package of choice. > > In the situation that you have described, I do not believe your two > criteria can be met. Having x bins of equal size seems prohibitive of > having equal number of points in each, when values are highly > dispersed. > > Just as a heads up, for this specific of a task, I would expect you > will spend a few hours more than you already have. If you are willing > to be a bit more flexible in your requirements, there are various > binning algorithms in ggplot2 and other packages you could use to bin > x valus, and then plot those against y quantiles. > > You are more likely to get a clear answer from the list if you can > provide some sample data and perhaps a few example graphs showing what > you hope to achieve. An easy way to provide some sample data is using > the dput() function and then paste the output into your (plaintext > please) email). > > Cheers, > > Josh > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michael <comtech....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying hard to do the following and have already spent a few hours > in > > vain: > > > > I wanted to do the scatter plot. > > > > But given the high dispersion on those dots, I would like to bin the > x-axis > > and then for each bin of the x-axis, plot the quantiles of the y-values > of > > the data points in each bin: > > > > 1. Uniform bin size on the x-axis; > > 2. Equal number of observations in each bin; > > > > How to do that in R? I guess for the sake of prettyness, I'd better do it > > in ggplot2? > > > > Thank you! > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > Joshua Wiley > Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology > Programmer Analyst II, Statistical Consulting Group > University of California, Los Angeles > https://joshuawiley.com/ > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
