R help - Jun 2008 - stuck on making a line graph across time, with 4 categories

I can't seem to find just what I'm looking for in R help, Everitt and
Hothorn HSAUR, Murrell's book, or the R graphics gallery at
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/.  Probably not looking
efficiently, but anyway,

If my data look like this:
> head(data)
      cat startyear studentid
1   other      2001        12
2     UHS      2001        17
3 Lourdes      2001        10
4 Endwell      2001         3
5   other      2002        13
6     UHS      2002        19
>
What is the easiest way to make a line graph like this (made this one in
Stata):

http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~cryan/Workload.png

Thank you.

--Chris
-- 
Christopher W. Ryan, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY  13790
cryanatbinghamtondotedu
PGP public keys available at http://home.stny.rr.com/ryancw/

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the
vast and endless sea."  [Antoine de St. Exupery]

Christopher W. Ryan <cryan <at> binghamton.edu> writes:
> 
> I can't seem to find just what I'm looking for in R help, Everitt
and
> Hothorn HSAUR, Murrell's book, or the R graphics gallery at
> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/.  Probably not looking
> efficiently, but anyway,
> 
> If my data look like this:
> 
> > head(data)
>       cat startyear studentid
> 1   other      2001        12
> 2     UHS      2001        17
> 3 Lourdes      2001        10
> 4 Endwell      2001         3
> 5   other      2002        13
> 6     UHS      2002        19
> >
> 
> What is the easiest way to make a line graph like this (made this one in
> Stata):
> 
> http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~cryan/Workload.png
> 
> Thank you.
  assuming "studentid" is your students,

library(lattice)
xyplot(studentid~startyear,groups=cat,auto.key=TRUE,type="l",data=data)

  (I think -- haven't tested at all)
  that, or reshape the data to wide format and use matplot.

  Ben Bolker

A solution with ggplot2 would be

dataset <- data.frame(cat = factor(rbinom(1000, 1, prob = .33), labels
LETTERS[1:2]), startyear = floor(runif(1000, 2001, 2009)), studentid 1:1000)

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(dataset, aes(x = startyear, colour = cat)) + stat_bin(aes(y ..count..),
geom="line", breaks = 2000:2008 + 0.5)

HTH,

Thierry 


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Namens Christopher W. Ryan
Verzonden: donderdag 26 juni 2008 21:18
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Onderwerp: [R] stuck on making a line graph across time, with 4
categories

I can't seem to find just what I'm looking for in R help, Everitt and
Hothorn HSAUR, Murrell's book, or the R graphics gallery at
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/.  Probably not looking
efficiently, but anyway,

If my data look like this:
> head(data)
      cat startyear studentid
1   other      2001        12
2     UHS      2001        17
3 Lourdes      2001        10
4 Endwell      2001         3
5   other      2002        13
6     UHS      2002        19
>
What is the easiest way to make a line graph like this (made this one in
Stata):

http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~cryan/Workload.png

Thank you.

--Chris
-- 
Christopher W. Ryan, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY  13790
cryanatbinghamtondotedu
PGP public keys available at http://home.stny.rr.com/ryancw/

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the
vast and endless sea."  [Antoine de St. Exupery]

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