Re: [R] Help with lines when x-axis is a date

[Jim Lemon]

Joe Trubisz wrote:
Hi...
I have a set of data, that looks like the following:

date mornenzyme niteenzyme pdate

where date is the original data char string and pdate is the POSIX  
representation.
mornenzyme and niteenzyme are both float values.

What I want to do is plot pdate against both enzymes, by having a  small 
blue circle
where the nite enzyme reading is and a red in the morning and for  each 
date, have
them connected by a line.

I can easily do the points with a plot followed by a points command,  
but the line
has me stumped. I tried:

for(i in length(enz[,1]) {
lines(c(pdate[i],mornenzyme[i]),c(pdate[i],niteenzyme[i]))
}

...but nothing plots. No line, no nothing and no error. Seems to be  an 
issue when a date is
used as the x-axis. Not sure what the solution to this is. Any help  
appreciated.

PS: No...this is not time-series data, hence, cannot use ts.plot.

Hi Joe,
When I look at your for loop, you are only going through it once. Say 
you try this and use segments:

for(i in 1:length(enz[,1]) {
 segments(pdate[i],mornenzyme[i],pdate[i],niteenzyme[i])
}

Now this should give you a bunch of vertical lines, as the x component 
is the same for the start and end of each line. However, I think you can 
probably work out how to get around that.

Jim

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