[R] R-help Digest, Vol 87, Issue 6

[George Chen]

Hello,

I am new to ggplot.  Please forgive my ignorance!

I have patient data such that each individual is a row and then the attributes are in columns.  So for example:

Subj	Time	Height	Weight	WBC	Plt
1	1	9	4	4	150
1	2	10	5	6	200
1	3	11	6	5	250
1	4	12	7	3	200
2	1	4	2	7	300
2	2	5	4	8	450
2	3	6	6	6	300
2	4	8	8	5	200
3	1	6	6	4	455
3	2	8	8	5	344
3	3	9	9	6	544
3	4	10	10	3	213

I would like to show the data as a time course for height , weight, WBC, and plt for each patient but in parallel and ultimately as a matrix of time courses for all the subjects with each patient a row and the time course graph for height weight WBC plt as individual columns.

So something like this
Subj 1   Height time course(TC)   Weight TC    WBC TC    Plt TC
Subj 2   Height time course(TC)   Weight TC    WBC TC    Plt TC
Subj 3   Height time course(TC)   Weight TC    WBC TC    Plt TC

Could somebody give me a hint as to how or where to start looking to figure this out?  I suspect it involves a layer for each time course, but how does one move the time course for say weight over so that it does not overly that for height?

Thanks in advance!

George