[R] Connect lines in a dot plot on a subject-by-subject basis

[John Sorkin]

I am trying to plot where data points from a give subject are connected by a line. Each subject is represented by a single row of data. Each subject can have
up to five observations. The first five columns of mydata give the time of observation, columns 6-10 give the values at each time point. Some subjects have
all data, some are missing values.

The code I wrote to draw the plot is listed below. If you run the code you will see that (1) The few lines drawn are not drawn on a subject-by-subject basis, (2) not all lines are drawn.

I hope someone can help me fix my code

Thanks,
John

# Create a matrix to hold our data.
mydata <- matrix(nrow=10,ncol=10)
dimnames(mydata) <- list(NULL,c("time1", "time2", "time3", "time4", "time5",
                                "clot1", "clot2", "clot3", "clot4", "clot5"))
# load data into the matrix.
# The first five columns represent time of measurement
# Columns 6-10 have the measured values. 
mydata[1,]=c( 1, 3, NA,NA, NA, 22, 40, NA, NA, NA)
mydata[2,]=c( 1, NA,NA,NA, NA, 39, NA, NA, NA, NA)
mydata[3,]=c( 1, 6, NA,NA, NA, 47, 43, NA, NA, NA)
mydata[4,]=c( 1, 3, 7, 21, NA, 34, 29, 33, 21, NA)
mydata[5,]=c( NA,NA,NA,NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA)
mydata[6,]=c( 1, 3, 7, 19, 35, 42, 60, 86, 56, 39)
mydata[7,]=c( 1, NA,NA,NA, NA, 57, NA, NA, NA, NA)
mydata[8,]=c( 1, 3, 10,17, 25, 71, 55, 57, 62, 47)
mydata[9,]=c( 1, NA,NA,NA, NA, 79, NA, NA, NA, NA)
mydata[10,]=c( 1,3, 9, NA, NA, 60, 64, 68, NA, NA)

# Dispaly data.
mydata

# Plot data.
plot(mydata[,1:5],mydata[,6:10])
# Attempt to connect points for each subject with lines.
lines(mydata[,1:5],mydata[,6:10],type="b")

John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
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