R help - Oct 2006 - Hmisc or Lattice plot with error bars, Depth (independent variable) on Y axis

I am trying to create some plots of concentration versus depth.  I want Depth on
the Y axis and the concentrations on the X axis. I also need to plot error bars.

The xYplot function in Hmisc is very nearly ideal but I have to put depth on the
x-axis to get it to work.  When I transpose the X and Y axes in the xYplot
command, the error bars disappear (no surprise given the help file).  It there a
way to get the plot command to flip the axes? That would be ideal as I could use
the grouping functions in xYplot and save a bunch of work.

If no such command exists any other ideas? 

I looked at the Dotplot command but the depths are not evenly spaced so I
don't think that will work.

Thanks in advance

Mike

Michael J Bock, PhD
ENVIRON International Corp.

 




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Mike Bock wrote:
> I am trying to create some plots of concentration versus depth.  I want
Depth on the Y axis and the concentrations on the X axis. I also need to plot
error bars.
> 
> The xYplot function in Hmisc is very nearly ideal but I have to put depth
on the x-axis to get it to work.  When I transpose the X and Y axes in the
xYplot command, the error bars disappear (no surprise given the help file).  It
there a way to get the plot command to flip the axes? That would be ideal as I
could use the grouping functions in xYplot and save a bunch of work.
> 
> If no such command exists any other ideas? 
> 
> I looked at the Dotplot command but the depths are not evenly spaced so I
don't think that will work.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Mike
> 
> Michael J Bock, PhD
> ENVIRON International Corp.
xYplot only supports vertical error bars
Frank

-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University

On 10/30/06, Mike Bock <mbock at environcorp.com>
wrote:
> I am trying to create some plots of concentration versus depth.  I want
Depth on the Y axis and the concentrations on the X axis. I also need to plot
error bars.
>
> The xYplot function in Hmisc is very nearly ideal but I have to put depth
on the x-axis to get it to work.  When I transpose the X and Y axes in the
xYplot command, the error bars disappear (no surprise given the help file).  It
there a way to get the plot command to flip the axes? That would be ideal as I
could use the grouping functions in xYplot and save a bunch of work.
>
> If no such command exists any other ideas?
See

demo(intervals)

The untruncated code can be seen with

file.show(system.file("demo/intervals.R", package =
"lattice"))

There was a recent thread dealing with extensions (grouping and switching axes):

[1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-October/114883.html

-Deepayan

I just  discovered that using the xYplot (Hmisc) and rotating the grid
viewport (and the labels etc) given me exactly what I need. I wish I had
thought of that much sooner....

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Deepayan Sarkar [mailto:deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:04 PM
To: Mike Bock
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Hmisc or Lattice plot with error bars, Depth
(independent variable) on Y axis

On 10/30/06, Mike Bock <mbock at environcorp.com>
wrote:
> I am trying to create some plots of concentration versus depth.  I
want Depth on the Y axis and the concentrations on the X axis. I also
need to plot error bars.
>
> The xYplot function in Hmisc is very nearly ideal but I have to put
depth on the x-axis to get it to work.  When I transpose the X and Y
axes in the xYplot command, the error bars disappear (no surprise given
the help file).  It there a way to get the plot command to flip the
axes? That would be ideal as I could use the grouping functions in
xYplot and save a bunch of work.
>
> If no such command exists any other ideas?
See

demo(intervals)

The untruncated code can be seen with

file.show(system.file("demo/intervals.R", package =
"lattice"))

There was a recent thread dealing with extensions (grouping and
switching axes):

[1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-October/114883.html

-Deepayan



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