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Can you provide the data and the commands that you were using. When providing the data, please use 'dput'. Most likely it might be because one of the things you are trying to plot is a factor, but unless we can see the data and commands, it is hard to tell. To add a line to a plot, you would do the following by making sure you have the correct limits for y: plot(Occupation,American.Workers, ylim=range(c(American.Workers, Foreign.Workers))) lines(Occupation,Foreign.Workers) On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:53 PM, cosinenonqua <sergeygo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a data frame with 3 columns and I want to order the entire list by one > column and then plot. I used order() and it does order the data set but when > I plot it is as if the set is as it was originally. I also can't figure out > how to plot two sets of data on the same graph. I have, > > Occupation American.Workers Foreign.Workers > Accountant 12 2 > Engineer 45 54 > Doctor 50 37 > > I want to be able to order American.Workers and then > plot(Occupation,American.Workers) and plot(Occupation,Foreign.Workers) on > the same graph. > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Keeping-the-order-of-data-set-when-plotting-tp1574535p1574535.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
