It might work to just say barplot(table(...)) Kjetil
CC Or maybe even plot(table(...)) On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Bob O'Hara <rni....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
