[R] Error Bar Issues

Sun Jun 6 12:47:27 CEST 2010

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:51 AM, beloitstudent <schurrk at beloit.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion...but R still doesn't like it.  Now I have 3 error
> messages.  It seems to dislike my *err=y* command.  I'm going to continue
> trying.  Thanks for your help!  If you happen to spot anything else, please
> let me know!
Off course, same problem: You're referring to an object y in your
command. But you have no object named y in your workspace, so R can't
continue.

Look at the help files:
?plotCI

You'll see you have to put quotation marks around y, like William
showed you. Next to that, please also define from which package you
use a plot. plotCI can be found in the gplots package and in the
plotrix package.

Cheers
Joris

Either you define all input for the function before you run it, or you
use the double quotes like William showed
>
> thanks!
> beloitstudent
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Joris FA Meys [via R] <
> ml-node+2244611-1554261936-278019 at n4.nabble.com<ml-node%2B2244611-1554261936-278019 at n4.nabble.com>
>> wrote:
>
>> you can't refer to an argument within a function call. Try
>>
>> uiw <- Saline[,3]
>>
>> plotCI(x=Saline [,1],y=Saline [,2], uiw=uiw, liw=uiw, err=y, pch=21,
>> pt.bg=par("bg"), cex=1.5, lty=1, type="o", gap=0, sfrac=0.005,
>> xlim=c(-21,340),xaxp=c(-20,320,11), xlab="Time (min)", ylim=c(0,12),
>> yaxp=c(0,12,11), ylab="Arterial Plasma Acetaminophen (µg/mL)", las=1,
>> font.lab=2, add=TRUE)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Joris
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:09 PM, beloitstudent <[hidden email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2244611&i=0>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I am an undergraduate student who is having syntax issues trying to get
>> > error bars on my graph.
>> >
>> > This is the data, which I assigned the name "Saline" to.
>> >  Time       Average       SEM
>> > 1   -20      0.000000     0.0000000
>> > 2
>> > 3    30      0.000000     0.0000000
>> > 4    45      3.227902     0.7462524
>> > 5    60      5.066664     1.1623944
>> > 6    80      6.107491     1.5027762
>> > 7   110     6.968231     1.3799637
>> > 8   140     7.325713     1.2282053
>> > 9   200     7.875194     1.1185175
>> > 10  260    6.513927     0.5386359
>> > 11  320    4.204342     0.6855906
>> >
>> > This is the command that I typed in to get my error bars.
>> >
>> > plotCI(x=Saline [,1],y=Saline [,2], uiw=Saline [,3], liw=uiw, err=y,
>> pch=21,
>> > pt.bg=par("bg"), cex=1.5, lty=1, type="o", gap=0, sfrac=0.005,
>> > xlim=c(-21,340),xaxp=c(-20,320,11), xlab="Time (min)", ylim=c(0,12),
>> > yaxp=c(0,12,11), ylab="Arterial Plasma Acetaminophen (µg/mL)", las=1,
>> > font.lab=2, add=TRUE)
>> >
>> > And this is the error message I keep getting
>> > Error in plotCI(x = Saline[, 1], y = Saline[, 2], uiw = Saline[, 3], liw
>> =
>> > uiw,  :
>> >  object 'uiw' not found
>> > In addition: Warning message:
>> > In if (err == "y") z <- y else z <- x :
>> >  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
>> >
>> > Now, to me, the command seems correct.
>> > I want the error bars to show up where the points on my graph are...so
>> the x
>> > coordinates should be my time (aka Saline [1]) and the y coordinates
>> should
>> > be my Averages (aka Saline [2])  and my upper and lower limits to my
>> > confidence interval should be the SEM from Saline [3], but something is
>> > wrong with this and I cannot figure out what it is.  If anyone has
>> > suggestions I would be very grateful.  Thanks for your help!
>> >
>> > beloitstudent
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