[R] Question about creating error bars

[Dan Bolser]

I have data that looks (very roughly) like this...

Declarative: 
Several 'groups', each group with a very variable number of
data points associated.


Procedural:
v.1 <- c(rep(50,1), rep(5,5), rep(2,10))  # Set up 
v.2 <- c('a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h', # the
         'i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p') # groups
v.3 <- rep(v.2,v.1)                       # here.
v.4 <- rnorm(length(v.3))                 # Simulate data.
v.5 <- tapply(v.4,v.3,mean)               # My analysis.

plot(v.5)

As the number of data points in a group gets smaller, so the variance of
the mean value for that group goes up. I would like to bootstrap some
error bars to show roughly how variable the value for each group is. Here
we have a normal distribution, but mostly my data is binary (i.e. each
group has a different number of (nearly) binary observations). The groups
are ordered, and I want to see any trend in my data accross the groups.

Dan.