R help - Jan 2006 - Plotting the mean of data

Hi all!

I've got a datstructure like this:

subject  week  value

1	1	4
2	1	8
3	1	3
4	1	5

1	2	5
2	2	6
3	2	2
4	2	6

1	3	3
2	3	7
3	3	3
4	3	7

I'd like to plot the mean of 'value' against week. Is there a direct
way
of doing this or do I have to make a new structure with the calculated 
values and then plot it?

All the best!

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Here is one way of doing it:
> x  # your data
   subject week value
1        1    1     4
2        2    1     8
3        3    1     3
4        4    1     5
5        1    2     5
6        2    2     6
7        3    2     2
8        4    2     6
9        1    3     3
10       2    3     7
11       3    3     3
12       4    3     7
> x.mean <- tapply(x$value, x$week, mean) # take the mean by
'week'
> x.mean  # resulting vector
   1    2    3
5.00 4.75 5.00
> # plot using 'names' to get the 'week'
> plot(as.numeric(names(x.mean)), x.mean, xlab='week',
ylab='mean',
type='b')
>


On 1/2/06, Kare Edvardsen <ked@nilu.no> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I've got a datstructure like this:
>
> subject  week  value
>
> 1       1       4
> 2       1       8
> 3       1       3
> 4       1       5
>
> 1       2       5
> 2       2       6
> 3       2       2
> 4       2       6
>
> 1       3       3
> 2       3       7
> 3       3       3
> 4       3       7
>
> I'd like to plot the mean of 'value' against week. Is there a
direct way
> of doing this or do I have to make a new structure with the calculated
> values and then plot it?
>
> All the best!
>
> --
> ###########################################
> Kare Edvardsen <kare.edvardsen@nilu.no>
> Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
> Polarmiljosenteret
> NO-9296 Tromso       http://www.nilu.no
> Swb. +47 77 75 03 75 Dir. +47 77 75 03 90
> Fax. +47 77 75 03 76 Mob. +47 90 74 60 69
> ###########################################
>
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What the problem you are trying to solve?

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Kare Edvardsen wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I've got a datstructure like this:
> 
> subject  week  value
> 
> 1	1	4
> 2	1	8
> 3	1	3
> 4	1	5
> 
> 1	2	5
> 2	2	6
> 3	2	2
> 4	2	6
> 
> 1	3	3
> 2	3	7
> 3	3	3
> 4	3	7
> 
> I'd like to plot the mean of 'value' against week. Is there a
direct way
> of doing this or do I have to make a new structure with the calculated 
> values and then plot it?
For your data.frame X, you want, e.g.:

   A <- aggregate(X, list(X$week), mean)
   plot(A$week, A$value)

Uwe Ligges
> All the best!
>