[R] plot numeric vs character

[MacQueen, Don]

Try

require(lattice)
dotplot(num ~ let, data=mydf)



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On 3/17/16, 3:29 AM, "R-help on behalf of Ivan Calandra"
<r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>
wrote:

>Dear useRs,
>
>I would like to plot data points in a simple scatterplot. I don't have a
>lot of data per category, so a boxplot does not make sense.
>
>Here are some sample data:
>mydf <- data.frame(let=rep(letters[1:3],each=3), num=rnorm(9),
>stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
>
>I would like to do that, which throws an error, most likely because x is
>character:
>plot(mydf$let, mydf$num)
>
>If I convert to factor(), it plots a boxplot with no possibility (AFAIK)
>to plot points:
>mydf$let <- factor(mydf$let)
>plot(mydf$let, mydf$num, type='p')
>
>I know I can use the function points() in a somewhat convoluted manner:
>plot(mydf$num, xlim=c(1,3), type='n', xaxt='n')
>axis(side=1, at=1:3, labels=levels(mydf$let))
>points(as.numeric(mydf$let), mydf$num)
>
>Isn't there a simple(r) way? Maybe I just missed something obvious...
>
>Thank you in advance for your help,
>Ivan
>
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