[R] stacked bar plot

[John Kane]

--- On Wed, 3/23/11, Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at imail.org> wrote:

> From: Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at imail.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] stacked bar plot
> To: "Chandra Salgado Kent" <C.Salgado at cmst.curtin.edu.au>, "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>



> Also look at the ggplot2 package, it may do the summing as
> part of the plot call and probably does not need the reshape
> step.

If I'm reading Hadley's book correctly that is what it does if you have summarized data you need to explictly disable the reshape


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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > project.org] On Behalf Of Chandra Salgado Kent
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:30 AM
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] stacked bar plot
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm wondering if someone may be able to help me, and
> do apologize if
> > there is a simple and obvious solution for this. I am
> somewhat new to
> > R, and have been searching for a simple solution for a
> couple of days.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am interested in finding a tool that allows me to
> plot a stacked bar
> > plot.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > My data set is in the following format:
> > 
> > data<-data.frame(Sex=c("M","F","M","F","F"),
> Number=c(10,3,1,2,3),
> > Group_size=c(1,1,2,2,2))
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I would like to have the factor "Sex" stacked, "Group
> size" as a Factor
> > on the X axis, and "Number" on the Y axis (summed so
> that there is only
> > one value for each Sex by Group_size combination).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Many, many thanks for any help you may be able to
> offer!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Chandra
> > 
> > 
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