... and see also the "color specification" info in ?par as well as the linked ?palette. You may be wrapping around if yu have more categories than colors in your palette.
-- Bert Bert Gunter "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." -- Clifford Stoll On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Look at your code! > > color was specified as "as.factor..." > and pch was specifed as "..." (no as.factor() ) > > Read an R tutorial on how factors are coded for why this would make a > difference. > > -- Bert > > > Bert Gunter > > "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge > is certainly not wisdom." > -- Clifford Stoll > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:58 AM, GINGINS Simon <simon.ging...@unine.ch> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am currently building graphs using dochart(). I plotted the points in two >> different colors according to specific criteria from my dataset. Later, I >> decided to also give them different symbols, for easier reading if printed. >> I got quite a surprise when I realized that, even though I gave the same >> variable to both color= and pch= , I got a mix of the colors and symbols. I >> wanted one type of symbol to be only one color, and the second only the >> other color, and it is clearly not what happened. From my data, I would say >> that the pch= argument is not dealing properly with the variable I gave it. >> I tried using a dataset from R to see if this was only in my dataset, and it >> did the same. here’s a reproducible example, using beaver1: >> >> dotchart(beaver1$temp, groups=factor(beaver1$day), >> color=as.factor(beaver1$activ), pch=beaver1$activ) >> >> Does anyone know why, with the same variable, the arguments color & pch give >> different results? >> >> That would be of great help, since now I am no longer sure which one isthe >> correct representation of my data. >> >> Best regards & many thanks for the help >> >> Simon Gingins >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
