[R] Plotting numeric values against non numeric items

[lse1986]

Hey Jim,

Thanks for your reply!

I tried what you said, i still kept getting errors.

here's what i want my graph to look like:

http://i.imagehost.org/0474/Untitled_5.jpg

i have x<-c("not stir", "stir")

i can't plot it though :(


Jim Lemon wrote:
> 
> On 01/09/2010 12:38 PM, lse1986 wrote:
>> Hi i want do a line graph.
>>
>> My y axis contains numeric values. My x axis contains non numeric
>> statements.
>>
>> This is what i want the graph to look like.
>>
>> When i try to plot this graph on R it comes up with the following error
>> message:
>>
>> "Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'xlim' values
>> In addition: Warning messages:
>> 1: In xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log) : NAs introduced by coercion
>> 2: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
>> 3: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf"
>>
>>    
> Hi Sam,
> While I don't know what you want the graph to look like, I would suggest 
> the following:
> 
> xf<-factor(x)
> plot(as.numeric(xf),rnorm(10),type="l",xaxt="n")
> axis(1,at=1:10,labels=xf)
> 
> Jim
> 
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