Thanks Greg for your suggestion!

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Greg Snow <Greg.Snow@imail.org> wrote:

> A bar graph including both stacked and grouped bars will put lots of pretty
> colors on the page and probably be eyecatching, but is unlikely to be the
> most effective way to convey the actual meaning of the data.  I would
> recommend that you explore other possibilities for doing the plot.  A dot
> plot may give you what you want, see the dotchart2 function in the Hmisc
> package or the dotplot function in the lattice package.
>
> --
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> Statistical Data Center
> Intermountain Healthcare
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Xin Ge
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:25 PM
> > To: r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] (Grouped + Stacked) Barplot
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have googled and tried finding if someone has ever tried producing
> > (Grouped + Stacked) Barplot. I couldn't find one.
> >
> > My data needs to be reshaped, but once it is done it would be something
> > like
> > this:
> >
> > Factor1    Factor2    Factor3    Value
> > A    X    P    10
> > A    X    Q    20
> > A    Y    P    20
> > A    Y    Q    5
> > A    Z    P    20
> > A    Z    Q    10
> > B    X    P    20
> > B    X    Q    10
> > B    Y    P    30
> > B    Y    Q    50
> > B    Z    P    10
> > B    Z    Q    20
> >
> > There are three categorical variables (Factor1, Factor2, and Factor3
> > having
> > 2,3, and 2 levels resp.). I'm trying to plot "Factor1" on x axis --
> > each
> > level of this factor should have three (grouped) bars (one for each
> > level of
> > Factor2). Which will further be stacked by each level of Factor3.
> >
> > Can anyone guide me please, thanks,
> > ~Xin
> >
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