[R] Lattice barchart with error bars

[Bert Gunter]

Be careful!

You are talking about 2 different varieties of apples here. As I read
it, the CI's in the  cancer data, which I know is just for example
purposes, are CI's for the **individual means**; the notches in
boxplots are nonparametric and for 2 groups with roughly equal sample
sizes, "The idea appears to be to give roughly a 95% confidence
interval for the **difference** in two medians." (from
?boxplot.stats). So I'm not sure which you want, but they are
certainly different (by a factor of around sqrt(2),right?), even if
both are for the mean or both are for the median.

Cheers,
Bert

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:28 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Jul 5, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Shaun Jackman wrote:
>
>> Hi Bert, Dennis,
>>
>> I'll agree that using a barchart was a poor choice. I was in fact using a
>> notched bwplot to show the median and confidence interval of the median. In
>> this case it's the median and confidence interval that I want to highlight,
>> and I find that the visual noise of the box and whiskers is detracting from
>> the focus, and those wee notches are not much to focus on. So, I'd like to
>> draw a stripplot with error bars, preferably in Lattice. Let's call this a
>> TIE fighter plot. Any suggestions?
>>
>
> I like the TIE fighter label. Try this:
>
> library(latticeExtra)
> data(USCancerRates)
> segplot(reorder(factor(county), rate.male) ~ LCL95.male + UCL95.male,
>         data = subset(USCancerRates, state == "Washington"),
>         draw.bands = FALSE, centers = rate.male,
>         segments.fun = panel.arrows, ends = "both",
>         angle = 90, length = 1, unit = "mm")
>
> It's what Sarkar has recommended in the past when this request has been posted.
>
> --
> David
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Shaun
>>
>> On 4 July 2013 18:00, Dennis Murphy <djmuser at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If you consult the lattice package help, you'll discover there is no
>>> panel_errorbar() function, which would imply the package developers
>>> have a distaste for that type of graphic. If you fish around the
>>> R-help archives, though, you might be able to find someone who wrote a
>>> function to do error bars in lattice. (Use a searchable archive such
>>> as Nabble to hunt for it.)
>>>
>>> Error bar plots are easier to do in the ggplot2 package, since there
>>> is a specific function to generate the error bar 'geometry'
>>> (geom_errorbar). See http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/ for an expanded
>>> version of the package help pages, which include the graphs generated
>>> by the code. I believe there's also a base graphics version that you
>>> can get from the gplots package, but I don't know a lot about it.
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Shaun Jackman <sjackman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to draw a lattice barchart of means with error bars to show
>>>> the standard deviation. I have the barchart, how do I add the error
>>>> bars?
>>>>
>>>> require(datasets)
>>>> require(lattice)
>>>> x <- aggregate(weight ~ Diet, ChickWeight, function(x) c(mean=mean(x),
>>>> sd=sd(x)))
>>>> barchart(weight[,'mean'] ~ Diet, x)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Shaun
>>>>
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