[R] graphs, need urgent help (deadline :( )

Don McKenzie dmck at uw.edu
Thu Jun 11 04:07:45 CEST 2015


Thanks John!  My eyes aren't good enough to see that. I actually checked (I thought). This was the default window on Mac console, for others who might care.

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> On Jun 10, 2015, at 6:17 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
> 
> You have curly quotes rather than plain ones here : col=4,type=“l”,xlab=“Region”,ylab=“factor")
> 
> 
> 
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dmck at u.washington.edu
> Sent: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:32:59 -0700
> To: rosita21 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R] graphs, need urgent help (deadline :( )
> 
> You were caught by a mysterious issue that I don’t understand either.
> 
> plot(therapy.df$Region[therapy.df$sample==50],therapy.df$factor.a[therapy.df$sample==50],col=4,type=“l”,xlab=“Region”,ylab=“factor")
> 
> Error: unexpected input in "plot(therapy.df$Region[therapy.df$sample==50],therapy.df$factor.a[therapy.df$sample==50],col=4,type=‚”
> 
> but if I change the order of arguments to plot(), it’s fine
> 
> plot(therapy.df$Region[therapy.df$sample==50],therapy.df$factor.a[therapy.df$sample==50],type="l",col=4,xlab="Region",ylab="factor”)
> 
> I don’t know what to tell you.  If someone wiser than I is still reading, maybe s(he) can explain.  Possibly a bug has crept into the call to “par”, but “bugs" suspected by non-experts like me usually turn out to be naive user errors.  
> 
> For your purposes, use the one that works.  :-)
> 
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Rosa Oliveira <rosita21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry,
> 
> I taught I attached the cvs file :)
> 
> <therapy.csv>
> 
> Don,
> 
> I tried, but I got an error:
> 
>> my.data$Region
> 
>  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
> 
>> my.data$sample
> 
>  [1]   50   50   50   50   50   50   50   50   50   50  250  250  250  250  250  250  250  250  250  250 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
> 
> [29] 1000 1000
> 
>> my.data$factor.a
> 
>  [1] 0.895 0.811 0.685 0.777 0.600 0.466 0.446 0.392 0.256 0.198 0.136 0.121 0.875 0.777 0.685 0.626 0.550 0.466 0.384 0.330 0.060 0.138 0.065
> 
> [24] 0.034 0.931 0.124 0.060 0.028 0.017 0.014
> 
>> plot(my.data$Region[my.data$sample==50],my.data$factor.a[my.data$sample==50],col=4,type=“l”,xlab=“Region”,ylab=“factor")
> 
> Error: unexpected input in "plot(my.data$Region[my.data$sample==50],my.data$factor.a[my.data$sample==50],col=4,type=�”
> 
> I’m really naive, right?
> 
> Best,
> 
> RO
> 
> Atenciosamente,
> Rosa Oliveira
> 
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> 
> On 10 Jun 2015, at 18:10, Don McKenzie <dmck at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> For a legend, try (untested)
> 
> legend(0.15,0.9,c("factora","factorb","factorc"),col=c(4,2,3),lty=1)
> 
> If it overlaps data points move the first two arguments (0.15 and 0.9) around, or change the “ylim” argument in the plot() to ~1.2.
> 
> to avoid clutter, put the line-types information in the figure caption (IMO)
> 
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Don McKenzie <dmck at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Rosa Oliveira <rosita21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I attach my data.
> 
> Dear Jim, 
> 
> when I run your code (even the one you send me, not in my data), I get: 
> 
> Don't know how to automatically pick scale for object of type function. Defaulting to continuous
> 
> Error in data.frame(x = c(0.1, 0.2, 0.1, 0.2, 0.1, 0.2, 0.1, 0.2, 0.1,  : 
> 
>   arguments imply differing number of rows: 24, 0
> 
> Dear Don,
> 
> It’s meant that I will have 12 lines: 
> 
> 3 factors - lines colors
> 
> with 3 different values of “sample” for each - line types
> 
> [Three colors, one for each factor,
> and  three line types (lty=1,2,3), one for eachvalue of “sample - preferable dash, thin and thick).
> 
> in the X - I should have region (because I have 10 regions)
> 
> for each region I have the outcome of 3 different treatments (factor)
> 
> for each region and each treatment I have 3 different sample size.
> 
> But in your original post you had 4 sample sizes: 10,20,30,40.
> 
> I need to “see” the the influence of the region in the treatment outcome for each sample size.
> 
> So, at the end I should have 9 lines
> 
> 3 red (1 dash, 1 thin, 1 thick) - concerning factor a (dash for sample size 50, thin for sample size 250 and thick for sample size 1000)
> 
> 3 blue (1 dash, 1 thin, 1 thick) - concerning factor b (dash for sample size 50, thin for sample size 250 and thick for sample size 1000)
> 
> 3 green (1 dash, 1 thin, 1 thick) - concerning factor c (dash for sample size 50, thin for sample size 250 and thick for sample size 1000)
> 
> Hope this time is clear.
> 
> I also though about doing 3 different graphs, each one for 1 different sample size, and in that case I should have 3 graphs each one with 3 lines
> 
> 1 red to factor a, 1 blue to factor b and 1 green to factor c.
> 
> Do you all think is better?
> 
> A matter of style perhaps but I would use dotplots because you have only two data points for each “line”.  The lines will be misleading.  You also could use 
> 
> panel plots, but given your skill set (unless someone wants to spend a fair bit of time with you), it’s probably best to stay as simple as possible.
> 
> But given your original post (cleaned up)   # untested: apologies for any typos
> 
>        region              sample          factora          factorb  factorc
> 0.1   10       0.895    0.903    0.378
> 0.2   10       0.811    0.865    0.688
> 0.1   20       0.735    0.966    0.611
> 0.2   20       0.777    0.732    0.653
> 0.1   30       0.600    0.778    0.694
> 0.2   30       0.466    174.592  0.461
> 0.1   40       0.446    0.432    0.693
> 
> 0.2   40       0.392    0.294    0.686
> 
> plot(my.data$region[my.data$sample==10],my.data$factora[my.data$sample==10],col=4,type=“l”,ylim=c(0,1),xlab=“region”,ylab=“factor")
> 
> lines(my.data$region[my.data$sample==10],my.data$factorb[my.data$sample==10],col=2)
> 
> lines(my.data$region[my.data$sample==10],my.data$factorc[my.data$sample==10],col=3)
> 
> lines(my.data$region[my.data$sample==20],my.data$factora[my.data$sample==20],col=4,lty=2)
> 
> lines(my.data$region[my.data$sample==20],my.data$factorb[my.data$sample==20],col=2,lty=2)
> 
> lines(my.data$region[my.data$sample==20],my.data$factorc[my.data$sample==20],col=3,lty=2)
> 
> #  Now do two more groups of 3, changing the parameter “lty” to 3 and then 4
> 
> # Look at the syntax and note what changes and what stays constant. Do you see how this works?
> 
> # there will be what looks like a vertical line where sample = 30 and factorb = 174.592.  Do you see why?
> 
> # then you will need a legend
> 
> Nonetheless I can’t do it :(
> 
> best,
> 
> RO
> 
> Atenciosamente,
> Rosa Oliveira
> 
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> ____________________________________________________________________________
> 
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> Rosa Celeste dos Santos Oliveira, 
> 
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> 
> On 10 Jun 2015, at 14:13, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> I was looking at that last night and had the same problem of visualizing what Rosa needed.  
> 
> Hi Rosa
> This is nothing like what you wanted and I really don't understand your data but would something like this work as a substitute or am I completely lost?
> 
> dat1  <-  structure(list(region = c(0.1, 0.2, 0.1, 0.2, 0.1, 0.2, 0.1, 
> 0.2), sample = c(10L, 10L, 20L, 20L, 30L, 30L, 40L, 40L), factora = c(0.895, 
> 0.811, 0.735, 0.777, 0.6, 0.466, 0.446, 0.392), factorb = c(0.903, 
> 0.865, 0.966, 0.732, 0.778, 0.592, 0.432, 0.294), factorc = c(0.37, 
> 0.688, 0.611, 0.653, 0.694, 0.461, 0.693, 0.686)), .Names = c("region", 
> "sample", "factora", "factorb", "factorc"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
> -8L))
> 
> mdat1  <-   melt(dat1, id.var = c("region", "sample"),
>                    variable.name = "factor",
>                    value.name = "value")
> str(mdat1)
> 
> ggplot(mdat1, aes(region, value, colour = factor)) +
>                geom_line() + facet_grid(sample ~ .)
> 
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
> 
>    -----Original Message-----
> From: drjimlemon at gmail.com
> Sent: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:51:52 +1000
> To: rosita21 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R] graphs, need urgent help (deadline :( )
> 
> Hi Rosa,
> Like Don, I can't work out what you want and I don't even have the
> picture. For example, your specification of color and line type leaves
> only one point for each color and line type, and the line from one
> point to the same point is not going to show up. Here is a possibility
> that may lead (eventually) to a solution.
> 
> library(plotrix)
> par(tcl=-0.1)
> gap.plot(x=rep(seq(10,45,by=5),3),
> y=unlist(my.data[,c("factora","factorb","factorc")]),
> main="A plot of factorial mystery",
> gap=c(1.1,174),ylim=c(0,175),ylab="factor score",xlab="Group",
> xticlab=c(" \n0.1\n10"," \n0.2\n10"," \n0.1\n20"," \n0.2\n20",
>  " \n0.1\n30"," \n0.2\n30"," \n0.1\n40"," \n0.2\n40"),
> ytics=c(0,0.5,1,174.59),pch=rep(1:3,each=8),col=rep(c(4,2,3),each=8))
> mtext(c("Region","Sample"),side=1,at=6,line=c(0,1))
> lines(seq(10,45,by=5),my.data$factora,col=4)
> lines(seq(10,45,by=5),my.data$factorb[c(1:5,NA,7,8)],col=2)
> lines(seq(10,45,by=5),my.data$factorc,col=3)
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Rosa Oliveira <rosita21 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>    Dear Don and all,
> 
> I’ve read the tutorial and tried several codes before posting :)
> I’m really naive.
> 
> what I was trying to :  is something like the graph in the picture I
> drawee.
> 
> Is it more clear now?
> 
> Atenciosamente,
> Rosa Oliveira
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
>    On 09 Jun 2015, at 19:23, Don McKenzie <dmck at u.washington.edu
> <mailto:dmck at u.washington.edu>> wrote:
> 
> The answer lies in learning to use the help (and knowing where to
> start).  Did you look at the tutorial that comes with the R
> installation?
> 
> ?plot
> ?lines
> 
> ?par
> 
> In the last, look for the descriptions of “col” and “lty”.
> 
> Using plot() and lines(), and subsetting the four unique values of
> “sample”, you can create your lines.
> 
> Here is a crude start, assuming your columns are part of a data frame
> called “my.data”.   Untested...
> 
> plot(my.data$region[my.data$sample==10],my.data$factora[my.data$sample==10],col=4)
> 
>    # blue line, not dashed
> .
> .
> .
> 
> lines(my.data$region[my.data$sample==20],my.data$factorb[my.data$sample==20],col=2,lty=2)
> 
>    # red dashed line
> 
>    On Jun 9, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Rosa Oliveira <rosita21 at gmail.com
> <mailto:rosita21 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> another naive question (i’m pretty sure :( )
> 
> I’m trying to plot a multiple line graph:
> 
>        region              sample          factora          factorb
> factorc
> 0.1  10      0.895   0.903   0.378
> 0.2  10      0.811   0.865   0.688
> 0.1  20      0.735   0.966   0.611
> 0.2  20      0.777   0.732   0.653
> 0.1  30      0.600   0.778   0.694
> 0.2  30      0.466   174.592 0.461
> 0.1  40      0.446   0.432   0.693
> 0.2  40      0.392   0.294   0.686
> 
> The first column should be the independent variable, the second should
> compute a bold line for sample(10) and dash line for sample 20.
> 
> What about the other two values of “sample”?
> 
>    The others variables are outcomes for each of the first scenarios, and
> so it should: the 3rd, 4th and 5th columns should be blue, red and
> green respectively.
> 
> Resume :)
> 
> I should have a graph, in the x-axe should have the region and in the
> y axe, the factor.
> Lines:
>     1 - blue and bold for region 0.1, sample 10 and factor a
>     2 - blue and dash for region 0.2, sample 10 and factor a
>     3 - red and bold for region 0.1, sample 10 and factor b
>     4 - red and dash for region 0.2, sample 10 and factor b
>     5 - green and bold for region 0.1, sample 10 and factor c
>     6 - green and dash for region 0.2, sample 10 and factor c
> 
> Not consistent with what you said above. These are no longer lines, but
> points.
> 
> nonetheless the independent variable is nominal, I should plot a line
> graph.
> 
> Can anyone help me please?
> I have my file as a cvs file, so I first read that file (that I know
> how to do :)).
> 
> But I have it in that format.
> 
> Best,
> RO
> 
> Atenciosamente,
> Rosa Oliveira
> 
> --
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> 
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> 
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