I am trying to plot where data points from a give subject are connected by a line. Each subject is represented by a single row of data. Each subject can have up to five observations. The first five columns of mydata give the time of observation, columns 6-10 give the values at each time point. Some subjects have all data, some are missing values.
The code I wrote to draw the plot is listed below. If you run the code you will see that (1) The few lines drawn are not drawn on a subject-by-subject basis, (2) not all lines are drawn. I hope someone can help me fix my code Thanks, John # Create a matrix to hold our data. mydata <- matrix(nrow=10,ncol=10) dimnames(mydata) <- list(NULL,c("time1", "time2", "time3", "time4", "time5", "clot1", "clot2", "clot3", "clot4", "clot5")) # load data into the matrix. # The first five columns represent time of measurement # Columns 6-10 have the measured values. mydata[1,]=c( 1, 3, NA,NA, NA, 22, 40, NA, NA, NA) mydata[2,]=c( 1, NA,NA,NA, NA, 39, NA, NA, NA, NA) mydata[3,]=c( 1, 6, NA,NA, NA, 47, 43, NA, NA, NA) mydata[4,]=c( 1, 3, 7, 21, NA, 34, 29, 33, 21, NA) mydata[5,]=c( NA,NA,NA,NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA) mydata[6,]=c( 1, 3, 7, 19, 35, 42, 60, 86, 56, 39) mydata[7,]=c( 1, NA,NA,NA, NA, 57, NA, NA, NA, NA) mydata[8,]=c( 1, 3, 10,17, 25, 71, 55, 57, 62, 47) mydata[9,]=c( 1, NA,NA,NA, NA, 79, NA, NA, NA, NA) mydata[10,]=c( 1,3, 9, NA, NA, 60, 64, 68, NA, NA) # Dispaly data. mydata # Plot data. plot(mydata[,1:5],mydata[,6:10]) # Attempt to connect points for each subject with lines. lines(mydata[,1:5],mydata[,6:10],type="b") John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} ______________________________________________ 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.