[R] preparing data for barplot()

[Andrew Ziem]

Hello Petr,

Thank you.  That works beautifully.  I searched for a way to transpose
a data frame, but you are right: barplot() wants a matrix.


Andrew

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
> Read what barplot does and look to your plot.
>
> If you want each row to be plotted as stacked bar with names uder each bar
> taken from peaople variable then you need to
>
> transpose your matrix - barplot takes columns
> plot without names - you do not want them really plotted
> add names under each bar - that is what names.arg is for
>
> barplot(t(data.matrix(fakedata[,-1])), names.arg=fakedata$people)
>
> Regards
> Petr
>
> r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 03.03.2009 19:00:12:
>
>> What is the best way to produce a barplot from my data?  I would like
>> the barplot to show each person with the values stacked
>> val1+val2+val3, so there is one bar for each person  When I use
>> barplot(data.matrix(realdata)), it shows one bar for each value
>> instead.