[R] dotchart for matrix data

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2010-12-18 07:50, e-letter wrote:
>> Ben Bolker
>> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:07:24 -0800

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> I am trying to create a chart like this
> (http://www.b-eye-network.com/images/content/Fig4_3.jpg); so this is
> not possible using R?

That looks an awful lot like what lattice's dotplot would
produce. So: have you tried dotplot() as Ben has suggested?

Peter Ehlers

>
>> dotchart(as.matrix(d[,-1]),labels=as.character(d[,1]))
>> dotchart(as.matrix(d[,c("values1","values2")]),labels=as.character(d[,1]))
>>
>> ## reshaping data:
>> library(reshape)
>> mdot<- melt(d)
>>
>> ## using the lattice package
>>
>> library(lattice)
>> dotplot(value~category,groups=variable,data=mdot)
>> dotplot(value~variable,groups=category,data=mdot,auto.key=TRUE,
>>         scales=list(y=list(log=10)))
>>
>> ## you could also use ggplot2 ...
>
>> ?ggplot2
>
> No documentation for 'ggplot2' in specified packages and libraries:
> you could try 'help.search("ggplot2")'; seems I need to retrieve this
> package first. Thanks for the suggestion.
>
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