Re: [R] Analyzing large transition matrix

2010-06-24 Thread Bill Harris
Thanks, John and Jim. In general, the problem is the large number of entries, as you said (I could use up a lot of ink in a large-format plotter, I guess). Someone has suggested a pivot table in Excel :-) which makes me realize that I need to learn the reshape and plyr packages immediately. The

Re: [R] Analyzing large transition matrix

2010-06-24 Thread John Kane
--- On Thu, 6/24/10, Jim Lemon wrote: > From: Jim Lemon > Subject: Re: [R] Analyzing large transition matrix > To: "Bill Harris" > Cc: "r-help" > Received: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 7:44 AM > On 06/23/2010 11:30 PM, Bill Harris > wrote: > >

Re: [R] Analyzing large transition matrix

2010-06-24 Thread Jim Lemon
On 06/23/2010 11:30 PM, Bill Harris wrote: Let's say you have a dataframe of car trade-ins. For example, each row contains oldcar newcar qty and a typical entry could be lexus bmw1 I put the qty column to allow for fleet purchases, where one purchase may convert multiple cars at on

Re: [R] Analyzing large transition matrix

2010-06-23 Thread John Kane
?dotchart perhaps? --- On Wed, 6/23/10, Bill Harris wrote: > From: Bill Harris > Subject: [R] Analyzing large transition matrix > To: "r-help" > Received: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 9:30 AM > Let's say you have a dataframe of car > trade-ins.  For example,

[R] Analyzing large transition matrix

2010-06-23 Thread Bill Harris
Let's say you have a dataframe of car trade-ins. For example, each row contains oldcar newcar qty and a typical entry could be lexus bmw1 I put the qty column to allow for fleet purchases, where one purchase may convert multiple cars at once. I'd like to show what's going on. I co