[R] vertical kites in KiteChart (plotrix)

[Michael Bedward]

Oops, sorry, I left out a step in that last post

After replace NAs with 0 in Xwide...

# use distance col as row names
rownames( Xwide ) <- Xwide[ , 1 ]
Xwide <- Xwide[ , -1 ]

kiteChart( Xwide )


On 13 October 2010 19:49, Michael Bedward <michael.bedward at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Ellen,
>
> First up I think you can use reshape to get your data into a form that
> kiteChart will work with...
>
> # assuming your matrix or data.frame is called X
> Xwide <- reshape(X, timevar="depth", idvar="distance", direction="wide")
>
> # replace NAs with 0 (don't think kiteChart likes NA)
> Xwide[ is.na(Xwide) ] <- 0
>
> kiteChart(Xwide)
>
> I haven't considered all of your plot requirements here but hopefully
> this will get you started.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> On 13 October 2010 19:11, elpape <ellen.pape at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> I would like to create a kite chart in which I plot densities (width of the
>> vertical kites) in relation to sediment depth (on reversed y-axis) for 6
>> different locations (Distances from seep site, on x-axis on top of the
>> plot). The dataset I would like to use is:
>>
>>
>> Distance_from_seep_site Sedimentdepth   Density
>> 1100    0       107.8
>> 1100    1       264.6
>> 1100    2       284.2
>> 1100    3       470.4
>> 1100    4       58.8
>> 100     0       98
>> 100     1       176.4
>> 100     2       499.8
>> 100     3       548.8
>> 100     4       401.8
>> 100     5       107.8
>> 10      0       51.3
>> 10      1       22.8
>> 10      2       79.8
>> 10      3       68.4
>> 10      4       17.1
>> 10      5       5.7
>> 10      6       17.1
>> 5       0       188.1
>> 5       1       267.9
>> 5       2       376.2
>> 5       3       233.7
>> 5       4       165.3
>> 5       8       5.7
>> 5       9       5.7
>> 2       0       74.1
>> 2       1       102.6
>> 2       2       85.5
>> 2       3       91.2
>> 2       4       34.2
>> 2       5       5.7
>> 2       6       11.4
>> 2       8       11.4
>> 2       10      28.5
>> 2       11      22.8
>> 0       0       461.7
>> 0       1       273.6
>> 0       2       79.8
>> 0       3       68.4
>> 0       4       34.2
>> 0       5       22.8
>> 0       6       51.3
>> 0       8       68.4
>> 0       9       39.9
>> 0       11      22.8
>>
>> I have tried to rearrange the data, but I do not seem to get the output that
>> I desire...
>>
>> Can anyone help me?
>>
>> Thank you so much!
>> Ellen
>>
>>
>>
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