[R] R-help Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7

[Kyosti H Kurikka]

Hi!

Just use your factors for indexing c(15,16,17) and
c("red","green","blue"). So, with the iris data:

>with(iris, plot(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width,
       pch=c(15,16,17)[as.integer(Species)],
       col=c("red","green","blue")[as.integer(Species)] ))

Best regards,
Kyosti Kurikka


> > Evgeniy Kachalin wrote:
> >
> >> Hello, dear participants!
> >>
> >> Could you tip me, is there any simple and nice way to build
> >> scatter-plot for three different types of data (, and o and * - signs,
> >> for example) with legend.
> >>
> >> Now i can guess only that way:
> >>
> >> plot(x~y,data=subset(mydata,factor1=='1'), pch='.',col='blue')
> >> points(x~y,data=subset(mydata,factor1=='2'), pch='*',col='green')
> >> points(.... etc
> >>
> >> What is the simple and nice way?
> >> Thank you very much for your kindness and help.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Example:
> >
> >
> > with(iris,
> >   plot(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, pch = as.integer(Species)))
> > with(iris,
> >   legend(7, 4.4, legend = unique(as.character(Species)),
> >                     pch = unique(as.integer(Species))))
> >
>
> Uwe, sorry for my stupid question. You mean that when pch=factor , plot
> can recycle the factor and use it for subscripts or marks.
>
> Then pch=as.integer(Species) results in c(1,2,3) for 3 factor levels.
> And I need symbols 15,16,17 and colors red, blue, green.
>
> So then I do:
> iris$Species->spec.symb
> iris$Species->spec.col
> levels(spec.symb)<-c(15,16,17)
> levels(spec.col)<-c('red','green','blue')
>
> That's the only way?
> More of that!!! 'Plot' does not like factors in 'pch'. So it must be so:
> plot(x~y,data, pch=as.integer(as.character(spec.symb))).
> That's totally crazy...
>
> --
> Evgeniy
>
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