[R] plotting order in a barchart.: two problems

[John Kane]

Thanks Uwe,  I managed to get it to work. I still
don't   quite understand what I was doing wrong and so
probably could not provide reproducable code. 

Still, every day I learn a bit more.


--- Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
wrote:

> John Kane wrote:
> 
> > I am new at R and have a simple problem, I think.
> I
> > have a matrix:   
> > 
> >    [,1]   [,2]  [,3]
> > a    .5     2    .4
> > b    4     3.4    4
> > c    4      4     2
> > 
> > I want a barchart with the [,1] column plotted as
> the
> > left-most group on a vertical bar chart or as the
> top
> > group on a horizontal chart.  However the plotting
> > order is , [,3] [,2] [,1].  
> 
> 
> Hmm, works for me in the correct order at once:
> 
>   barplot(X, beside = TRUE)
> 
> But maybe you want to show us some reproducible code
> ...
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> > I also am having a problem getting the rows to
> plot on
> > a vertical chart in the order : a , b, c .  I
> achieved
> > this in a horizontal chart by doing a cbind(c,b,a)
> but
> > for some reason I do not seem to be getting this
> to
> > work for the vertical chart.  
> > 
> > Nothing in Sort() or Order() seem particularly
> > appropriate ( or I don't understand what the help
> is
> > telling me).  
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > 
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