[R] plot time series data in wide format

[Jim Lemon]

On 11/02/2013 11:08 AM, Gary Dong wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I wonder if there is a way that I can plot a time series data which is in a
> wide format like this:
>
> CITY_NAME       2000Q1    2000Q2      2000Q3        2000Q4     2001Q1
> 2001Q2      2001Q3     2001Q4     2002Q1      2002Q2
> CITY1                100.5210   101.9667  103.24933   104.0506   104.4317
> 105.3921   106.7643   107.5202   107.2561   107.8184
> CITY2                100.0412   100.6146  103.20293   104.0867   104.6612
> 106.6126   109.3514   110.1943   110.9480   113.0071
> CITY3                 99.5895    99.2298   99.26947    99.4101   100.5776
> 101.3719   101.5957   102.2411   103.4390   105.1745
> CITY4                 99.6491   101.5386  104.90953   106.1065   108.1785
> 110.6845   113.3746   114.1254   116.2121   119.1033
> CITY5                100.9828   103.6847  105.04793   106.5925   108.7437
> 110.5549   111.9343   112.6704   113.6201   115.3020
>
> Ideally, each city of the five city is represented by a line in the plot.
>
Hi Gary,
I'm not sure that this is exactly what you want, but:

library(plotrix)
# use window() if you are using Windows
x11(width=10,height=5)
bumpchart(garydf[,2:11],rank=FALSE,labels=garydf[,1])

Jim