[R] Ploting a matrix

[baptiste auguie]

Here's my suggestion using the ggplot2 package (but you may prefer to  
stick with base functions),


date = factor(letters[1:9])
d <- data.frame(x1=seq(1, 9), x2=seq(2, 10), date=date)

head(d) # dummy data that resembles yours
str(d)

library(reshape)
md <- melt(d, id="date") # creates a data.frame in the long format
head(md)

library(ggplot2)

qplot(date, value, data=md, geom="point") + facet_wrap(~variable) #  
the layout is done automatically for you
# see Hadley's book for customisations
# http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/facet_wrap.html


HTH,

baptiste

On 27 Mar 2009, at 15:19, skrug wrote:

> Sorry for the mistake. As you probably already guesed, I am just
> starting using R. I could not name the difference between a matrix  
> and a
> data.frame.
>
>> str(b)
> 'data.frame':   9 obs. of  7 variables:
> $ Datum: Factor w/ 9 levels "06.03.","07.03.",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> $ X1   : int  408 335 2123 4685 7669 17060 31330 70730 109667
> $ X2   : int  230 241 1509 2226 7839 13997 24797 53133 93061
> $ X3   : int  25 16 38 61 114 299 140 172 196
> $ X4   : int  248 588 2083 2071 4563 9798 17611 38554 82354
> $ X5   : int  407 201 1339 3699 8375 19200 36563 83993 123167
> $ X6   : int  248 730 3056 2327 4092 8905 15931 37895 84565
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
> baptiste auguie schrieb:
>> the result of read.table is a data.frame, not a matrix as you first
>> suggested. Can you copy the result of str(b) so we know what your  
>> data
>> is made of?
>>
>> I'm guessing the most elegant solution will be to use the reshape
>> package, followed by ggplot2 or lattice.
>>
>> baptiste
>>
>> On 27 Mar 2009, at 14:54, skrug wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, I could not solve the problem of plotting all  
>>> columns of
>>> a matrix against the first column
>>>
>>> I used:
>>>
>>> b=read.table("d:\\programme\\R\\übungen\\Block 1b.txt", header=T)
>>>
>>> "b" is a table with the first column using  Dates and the following
>>> columns with vectors.
>>>
>>> apply(b[,-1], 2, plot, x= b[,1])
>>>
>>> Also all columns have the same length, [R] states that the length  
>>> are
>>> different.
>>>
>>> Can you help me?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> baptiste auguie schrieb:
>>>> Something like this perhaps,
>>>>
>>>>> a <- matrix(rnorm(5*49), ncol=49)
>>>>>
>>>>> pdf(width=15, height=15)
>>>>>
>>>>> par(mfrow= c(8,6))
>>>>> apply(a[,-1], 2, plot, x= a[,1])
>>>>>
>>>>> dev.off()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>>
>>>> baptiste
>>>>
>>>> On 27 Mar 2009, at 11:05, skrug wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi evrybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> in a matrix consisting of 49 columns, I would like to plot all  
>>>>> columns
>>>>> against the first in 48 different graphs.
>>>>> Can you help me?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advance
>>>>> Sebastian
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> ***************************************************************************************************************
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dipl. Biol. Sebastian Krug
>>>>> PhD - student
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>>>> _____________________________
>>>>
>>>> Baptiste Auguié
>>>>
>>>> School of Physics
>>>> University of Exeter
>>>> Stocker Road,
>>>> Exeter, Devon,
>>>> EX4 4QL, UK
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> ***************************************************************************************************************
>>>
>>>
>>> Dipl. Biol. Sebastian Krug
>>> PhD - student
>>> IFM - GEOMAR
>>> Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences
>>> Research Division 2 - Marine Biogeochemistry
>>> Düsternbrooker Weg 20
>>> D - 24105 Kiel
>>> Germany
>>>
>>> Tel.: +49 431 600-4282
>>> Fax.: +49 431 600-4446
>>> email: skrug at ifm-geomar.de
>>>
>>
>> _____________________________
>>
>> Baptiste Auguié
>>
>> School of Physics
>> University of Exeter
>> Stocker Road,
>> Exeter, Devon,
>> EX4 4QL, UK
>>
>> Phone: +44 1392 264187
>>
>> http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag
>> ______________________________
>>
>
>
> -- 
> ***************************************************************************************************************
>
> Dipl. Biol. Sebastian Krug
> PhD - student
> IFM - GEOMAR
> Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences
> Research Division 2 - Marine Biogeochemistry
> Düsternbrooker Weg 20
> D - 24105 Kiel
> Germany
>
> Tel.: +49 431 600-4282
> Fax.: +49 431 600-4446
> email: skrug at ifm-geomar.de
>

_____________________________

Baptiste Auguié

School of Physics
University of Exeter
Stocker Road,
Exeter, Devon,
EX4 4QL, UK

Phone: +44 1392 264187

http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag