Look at the beside argument to the barplot function. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111
> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Steve Murray > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:52 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Plotting pairs of bars > > > Dear all, > > I have a matrix called combine86 which looks as follows: > > > combine86 > Sim Mean Obs Mean Sim Sum Obs Sum > AMAZON 1172.0424 1394.44604 553204 659573 > NILE 262.4440 164.23921 67973 41881 > CONGO 682.8007 722.63971 205523 214624 > MISSISSIPPI 363.0758 142.59883 124535 49054 > AMUR 143.5857 89.30434 36040 22594 > PARANA 702.3793 388.03030 162952 89635 > YENISEI 208.1396 174.52722 83464 70509 > OB 197.0399 162.82697 79013 63991 > LENA 118.1100 77.49638 48307 32161 > NIGER 374.8258 212.25714 66719 37145 > ZAMBEZI 500.0000 485.87610 57000 54904 > YANGTZE 358.4172 256.80246 58422 41602 > > > For each of the rivers (which are the row names of this matrix), I wish > to plot a bar for Simulated Mean and another for the Observed Mean. So > far I've only been able to get R to stack the bars (using 'barplot) on > top of one another, which isn't really what I want! I was hoping more > for a pairing of bars (one 'Sim' and one 'Mean') followed by a gap, > then the next pair of bars for the next river, a gap, and so on. Is > this possible to do in R? If so, how?! > > Many thanks, > > Steve > > > _________________________________________________________________ > [[elided Hotmail spam]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
