[R] categorical vs numerical

[DispersionMap]

im using w7 ultimate


Peter Ehlers wrote:
> 
> pkg:lattice is installed as part of the base R distribution.
> You don't need to install it.
> 
> DispersionMap wrote:
>> Thanks, ill give them whirl...when i was installing the lattice package i
>> got
>> the error in bold below...why does it say permission denied and what
>> effect
>> does this have?
> I guess that you're on Vista and don't have write permission
> for that directory.
> 
>   -Peter Ehlers
>> 
>>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
>> package 'lattice' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> updating HTML package descriptions
>> Warning message:
>> In file.create(f.tg) :
>>   cannot create file 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-29~1.2/doc/html/packages.html',
>> reason
>> 'Permission denied'
>> 
>>> local({pkg <- select.list(sort(.packages(all.available = TRUE)))
>> + if(nchar(pkg)) library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)})
>> Warning message:
>> package 'lattice' was built under R version 2.10.0 
>> 
>> I have it loaded 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Peter Ehlers wrote:
>>> Whoops, that should be
>>>
>>>   densityplot(~y|g, data=dat, plot.points=FALSE, layout=c(1,4))
>>>
>>>   -Peter Ehlers
>>>
>>> Peter Ehlers wrote:
>>>> You could try density plots:
>>>> If dat is your dataframe, y is your numerical vector and
>>>> g is your factor,
>>>>
>>>> library(lattice)
>>>> trellis.device(height=9, width=7)
>>>> densityplot(~g|y, data=dat, plot.points=FALSE, layout=c(1,4))
>>>>
>>>> See ?densityplot, ?panel.densityplot
>>>>
>>>>  -Peter Ehlers
>>>>
>>>> DispersionMap wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, however the group sizes are really big (each a,b,c.. category
>>>>> has
>>>>> 60,000 observations). Its hard to see whats going on withe the
>>>>> jittered
>>>>> stripchart, i just get big black blobs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter Ehlers wrote:
>>>>>> If your group sizes are not too large, I would use jittered
>>>>>> stripcharts.
>>>>>> They're more informative than boxplots and much less subject to
>>>>>> misinterpretation. One warning, I'm not fond of the default pch=0.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  -Peter Ehlers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DispersionMap wrote:
>>>>>>> What ways are there to plot categorical vs numerical data in R.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have two columns: one with categorical data in 5 categories 
>>>>>>> a,b,c,d,e,
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> a numerical column with integers between 1 and 100.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have used a boxplot with a,b,c,d,e on the x-axis and an increasing
>>>>>>> numerical scale on the y-axis. This look fine but im looking for
>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>> ways
>>>>>>> to present the data.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What other ways can i do this???
>>>>>>>
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>>> -- 
>>> Peter Ehlers
>>> University of Calgary
>>> 403.202.3936
>>>
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>> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Ehlers
> University of Calgary
> 403.202.3936
> 
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