[R] Numbers as symbols

[Patrick Connolly]

On Mon, 28-Jun-2004 at 09:37PM -0700, Nick Drew wrote:

|> I want to use question numbers from my survey data
|> (fake data below) as markers in a scatterplot. I'm
|> using "as.character" to convert question numbers to
|> characters. However, plot truncates the 0 (zero) off
|> of question 10. How can I get the ending zero so I can
|> add questions 11 - 20?
|>  
|> # Sample code below
|> Question <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
|> Performance <-
|> c(3.5,3.6,3.7,3.8,3.9,4,4.1,4.2,4.3,4.4)
|> Importance <-
|> c(0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9,0.99)
|> Survey <-
|> data.frame(cbind(Question,Performance,Importance))
|>  
|> nums <-as.character(Question)
|> plot(Performance, Importance, xlab='Graph',
|> ylab='',pch=nums, axes=T)

Try this instead:

plot(Performance, Importance, xlab='Graph',
ylab='',pch=" ", axes=T, adj = 0)

text(Performance, Importance, text=nums)

HTH

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