Yay! That's perfect. Thanks, Steve! Tom
2010/2/27 S Ellison <s.elli...@lgc.co.uk>: > Thomas, > > You could perhaps do a tad better by simply adding a right-hand-side > axis using axis(): > > axis(4, at=c(4.3,4.0,3.7, 3.3,3.0,2.7, 2.3,2.0,1.7, 1.3,1.0,0.7), > labels=c('A+','A','A-','B+','B','B-','C+','C','C-','D+','D','D-'), > las=1) > > That way you have both numeric and grade scales. > > if you want a left-hand grade scale only, first suppress the axes in the > barplot using axes=FALSE, and then add the axes using axis(1) and > axis(2,..) with the ... as above. > > Incidentally, I'm not sure I'd have converted your numbers that way, but > if it's worked it's worked. > > Steve E >>>> Thomas Levine <thomas.lev...@gmail.com> 02/28/10 12:44 AM >>> > I have grades data. I read them from a csv in letter-grade format. I > then converted them to levels > > levels(grades$grade)=c('A+','A','A-','B+','B','B-','C+','C','C-','D+','D','D-') > > And then to numbers > > grades$gp=grades$grade > levels(grades$gp)=c(4.3,4.0,3.7, 3.3,3.0,2.7, 2.3,2.0,1.7, 1.3,1.0,0.7) > grades$gp=as.numeric(as.character(grades$gp)) > > And I'm plotting them in a barplot > > barplot(gp[order(gp)],width=n[order(gp)],ylab="Class Median > Grade",xlab="Class, scaled to number of students in the > class",main="Class Median Grades for Cornell University weighted by > class size") > > I would like to change the scale on the bar graph such that it reads > > c('A+','A','A-','B+','B','B-','C+','C','C-','D+','D','D-') > > in the locations > > c(4.3,4.0,3.7, 3.3,3.0,2.7, 2.3,2.0,1.7, 1.3,1.0,0.7) > > Any ideas? > > Tom > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > > ******************************************************************* > This email and any attachments are confidential. Any u...{{dropped:9}} ______________________________________________ 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.