#I am having trouble figuring out this one. I have read the help and I am at a loss. what am I missing x <- structure(list(X = structure(c(6L, 5L, 9L, 2L, 10L, 8L, 7L, 3L, 13L, 12L, 11L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("", "April", "August", "December", "February", "January", "July", "June", "March", "May", "November", "October", "September"), class = "factor"), X2006 = c(5987.387, 6478.592, 8386, 4651.273, 4339.167, 4631.978, 5217.306, 5846.903, 3867.825, 3886.434, 3959.668, 3848.853, NA, NA, NA), X2007 = c(4354.516, 5924.315, 5559.468, 3967.5, 5053.56, 4808.694, 4017.632, 3969.883, 3910.236, 3782.094, 3961.286, 3711.262, NA, NA, NA), X2008 = c(3685.789, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA)), .Names = c("X", "X2006", "X2007", "X2008"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -15L)) barplot(x) #I would like the months to be on the x-axis and then have the bars be the values for the year -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
on 06/11/2008 12:44 PM stephen sefick wrote:> #I am having trouble figuring out this one. I have read the help and I am > at a loss. what am I missing > > x <- structure(list(X = structure(c(6L, 5L, 9L, 2L, 10L, 8L, 7L, 3L, > 13L, 12L, 11L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("", "April", "August", > "December", "February", "January", "July", "June", "March", "May", > "November", "October", "September"), class = "factor"), X2006 = c(5987.387, > 6478.592, 8386, 4651.273, 4339.167, 4631.978, 5217.306, 5846.903, > 3867.825, 3886.434, 3959.668, 3848.853, NA, NA, NA), X2007 = c(4354.516, > 5924.315, 5559.468, 3967.5, 5053.56, 4808.694, 4017.632, 3969.883, > 3910.236, 3782.094, 3961.286, 3711.262, NA, NA, NA), X2008 = c(3685.789, > NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA)), .Names = c("X", > "X2006", "X2007", "X2008"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, > -15L)) > > barplot(x) > > #I would like the months to be on the x-axis and then have the bars be the > values for the yearIs this what you want? barplot(t(x[-1]), names.arg = x$X, las = 2) Note that the 'height' argument for barplot() needs to be either a vector or a matrix. HTH, Marc Schwartz