Hi, Nick! plot(......, type="h", lwd=5, lend=3, xaxt="n") axis(1, at=c(...))
is the way to start, after which you play with the code. For years. Bob On 3 April 2010 21:52, Nick Matzke <mat...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple task I can't figure out. I'd like to take some > measurements I made, e.g.: > > year (y-axis) > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > > counts (x-axis) > 10 > 10 > 20 > 30 > 40 > 50 > > And then, make a barplot with the x-axis ticks (representing the borders > between years) between the bars. > > However, barplot seems to force you to make the x-axis arbitrary > categories. I want it to be continuous (as in a histogram) as I have to bin > the data by a series of different time periods (1 year intervals, 2 year > intervals, etc.) and then plot several of the histograms/barplots in a > series of figures to show how differing resolution changes the pattern. > > I have calculated the counts manually, but I can't just pipe the raw data > into hist due to its weirdness (species stratigraphic ranges). > > Basically I want a scatterplot to plot x,y data points, except with > vertical bars instead of points. > > I've tried hacking hist() but so far without luck. > > Any help greatly appreciated! > > Nick > > > -- > ==================================================== > Nicholas J. Matzke > Ph.D. Student, Graduate Student Researcher > Huelsenbeck Lab > Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics > 4151 VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building) > Department of Integrative Biology > University of California, Berkeley > > Graduate Student Instructor, IB200A > Principles of Phylogenetics: Systematics > http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib200a/index.shtml > > Lab websites: > http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/lab_detail.php?lab=54 > http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/hlab.html > Dept. personal page: > http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/students/person_detail.php?person=370 > Lab personal page: http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/members/matzke.html > Lab phone: 510-643-6299 > Dept. fax: 510-643-6264 > Cell phone: 510-301-0179 > Email: mat...@berkeley.edu > > Mailing address: > Department of Integrative Biology > 3060 VLSB #3140 > Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 > > ----------------------------------------------------- > "[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people > thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that > thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is > flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." > > Isaac Asimov (1989). "The Relativity of Wrong." The Skeptical Inquirer, > 14(1), 35-44. Fall 1989. > http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Bob O'Hara Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre Senckenberganlage 25 D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Tel: +49 69 798 40216 Mobile: +49 1515 888 5440 WWW: http://www.bik-f.de/root/index.php?page_id=219 Blog: http://blogs.nature.com/boboh Google Wave: rni....@googlewave.com Journal of Negative Results - EEB: www.jnr-eeb.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
