R help - Nov 2007 - Fw: Creating a barplot--advice needed

Subject: Creating a barplot--advice needed

> Advice needed: I am preparing a computer program to do a barchart. Advice 
> needed: Should I learn the lattice package, or try to? As a 
> non-statistician, much of the terminology is unfamiliar to me.
"grouping
> variable," "object of class trellis," etc. Or, is there a
more easily
> learned way to do it? It is a simple, vanilla-flavored barplot. Each of 
> the bars has the same width. I knos how to create the barplot using a 
> speadsheet program (MS Excel or equivalent), but I do not know how to put 
> the barplot on  top of a R graphics windows. I have a PhD in Computer 
> Science, but am no statistician.
>
> Your advice?
>
> Tom Jones
>

Hi

If your barplot is simple, why not to use plain barplot from basic 
graphics. Try to look at

?barplot

Petr
petr.pikal at precheza.cz

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 04.11.2007 01:15:20:
> 
> 
> Subject: Creating a barplot--advice needed
> 
> 
> > Advice needed: I am preparing a computer program to do a barchart. 
Advice 
> > needed: Should I learn the lattice package, or try to? As a 
> > non-statistician, much of the terminology is unfamiliar to me. 
"grouping 
> > variable," "object of class trellis," etc. Or, is there
a more easily
> > learned way to do it? It is a simple, vanilla-flavored barplot. Each 
of 
> > the bars has the same width. I knos how to create the barplot using a 
> > speadsheet program (MS Excel or equivalent), but I do not know how to 
put 
> > the barplot on  top of a R graphics windows. I have a PhD in Computer 
> > Science, but am no statistician.
> >
> > Your advice?
> >
> > Tom Jones
> >
> 
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On 4/11/2007, at 1:15 PM, Thomas L Jones, PhD wrote:
>
>
> Subject: Creating a barplot--advice needed
>
>
>> Advice needed: I am preparing a computer program to do a barchart.  
>> Advice
>> needed: Should I learn the lattice package, or try to? As a
>> non-statistician, much of the terminology is unfamiliar to me.  
>> "grouping
>> variable," "object of class trellis," etc. Or, is there
a more easily
>> learned way to do it? It is a simple, vanilla-flavored barplot.  
>> Each of
>> the bars has the same width. I knos how to create the barplot using a
>> speadsheet program (MS Excel or equivalent), but I do not know how  
>> to put
>> the barplot on  top of a R graphics windows. I have a PhD in Computer
>> Science, but am no statistician.

	What (on earth!) do you mean by ``put the barplot on top of an
	R graphics window''?

			cheers,

				Rolf Turner

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