[R] Coplot Question (Unresolved)

[Steve Arthur]

Rers,

I still have a question concerning the coplot function.

I have written some code using the coplot:

coplot(y ~ as.numeric(Base) | a * b)
     
Where Base is a factor.
              
And it works great!  However, according to the way coplot works, Base is 
converted by "as.numeric" from  Base values, A, C, G, and T to 1, 2, 3,
and 4, which is not very helpful for data visualization and 
interpretation for the people I work with.

Question:  Is there a way to have the "coplot" work showing the original
A, C, G, T as values for Bases on the "coplot" axes?

coplot(y ~ as.factor(Base) | a * b ) does not work!

Also, it appears that "coplot" does not have a command for printing a
graph title, such as "main" as is in the "plot" function.  Am I right or
am I wrong?

>> >indicates for the formula: y ~ x | a * b, x and y must be numeric, and a
>> >and b must be factor values, so when I try your suggestion, it appearsnot
>> >to work.  I might instead try a plot statement with a
>> >par(mfrow=c(5,3)) etc... that's my next problem.

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OK! I see! Well, I just tried to do plot some data where the variable on
the x-axis is a character, and R does not accept it. I do not know if this
may be the original problem. Did anybody give you other suggestions? It may
be worth asking on r-help about this.
****

And finally, the "plot" function has a form "plot(f,y)" which it is stated
on page 65 of "An Introduction to R" V1.0.1 that "...form produces
boxplots of y for each level of f."  Where f is a factor and y is
numeric.  Is there anyway to not plot the boxplots and just show the
points above the factors?

Thanks in advance,

steve

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