Hi - I'm trying to plot some data and having a lot of trouble! I have a simple dataset consisting of two columns - income_per_capita and mass_beauty_value. When I read the data in and plot it, I get the attached plot Mass Beauty Non-Numeric: <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4716202/Mass_Beauty_Non-Numeric.jpg> . You can see that, while it contains all the values, the income_per_capita axis is out of order and there are some weird vertical lines happening.
To fix this, I converted both columns to numerics using: mass_beauty$income_per_capita <- as.numeric(mass_beauty$income_per_capita) mass_beauty$mass_beauty_value <- as.numeric(mass_beauty$mass_beauty_value) When I did this, I noticed that my income_per_capita column's values suddenly changed. Whereas I have values extending all the way to 30,000 or so before, now they maxed out at around 1,400. While at first I thought they might at least have changed to scale, it unfortunately looks like changes were more or less random. But, they plotted much better: <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4716202/Mass_Beauty_Plot.jpg> . Does anyone have any solution for how I can convert my income_per_capita column to a plottable numeric without changing up its values? I've tried doing as.numeric(as.character(mass_beauty_value$income_per_capita)) but it didn't work. Thanks so much for your help! ______________________________________________ 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.
