R help - Jul 2011 - beginner question - effective way to chart sleep habits

Hi - beginning R user question here - each day, over the course of several
months, I've tracked the time I go to bed, the time I wake up, and my hours
spent sleeping.  What would be a good way to display this information?  I
think it would be ideal to show something resembling a bar and whisker graph
for each day that would show the interval of hours spent asleep (or perhaps
just a bar "floating" against a backdrop showing the hours of a given
day/night), and that would also have a simple line graph of the total number
of hours per day.

Can I get a hint perhaps?  Thanks very much.

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Hi Peter,

There are lots and lots of ways.  Here are examples of a few that came
to mind.  If you have never used the ggplot2 package, you will first
need to install it, which you can do by typing:

install.packages("ggplot2")

The code below should run "as is".  You may see various trends over
time or based on bedtime because the data is (pseudo)randomly
generated, but you should see a "weekend" effect, which pops out in
the circular plot.

Hope this helps,

Josh

## Make up some data with potentially interesting weekend pattern
Date <- as.POSIXlt(as.POSIXct(1309639554, origin = "1970-01-01") +
  cumsum(rep(86400, 90)) + rnorm(90, sd = 2700))

d <- c("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday",
  "Saturday")

dat <- data.frame(Date,
  Day = factor(weekdays(Date), levels = d),
  Bedtime = Date$hour + Date$min/60,
  Hours = rnorm(length(Date), mean = 6.4))

weekends <- grep("Saturday|Sunday", dat$Day)

dat[weekends, "Hours"] <- dat[weekends, "Hours"] +
  rnorm(length(weekends), 1)

tmp <- with(dat, tapply(Hours, Day, mean))
dat2 <- data.frame(Days = factor(names(tmp), levels = d),
  Hours = as.numeric(tmp))

## Load required packages
require(ggplot2)

## Create three separate plots
## you can look at them individually by calling: print(plotobject)
p.hours <- ggplot(dat, aes(x = Date, y = Hours)) +
  geom_line() +
  opts(title = "Hours Slept per Night")

p.ave <- ggplot(dat2, aes(x = Days, y = Hours)) +
  geom_bar() +
  coord_polar() +
  opts(title = "Average Hours of Sleep per Day")

p.th <- ggplot(dat, aes(x = Bedtime, y = Hours)) +
  geom_point() +
  opts(title = "Bedtime and Hours Slept")

## Put all plots in one big one
pushViewport(vpList(
  viewport(x = 0, y = 0.5, width = .5, height = .5,
    just = c("left", "bottom"), name = "a"),
  viewport(x = .5, y = .5, width = .5, height = .5,
    just = c("left", "bottom"), name = "b"),
  viewport(x = 0, y = 0, width = 1, height = .5,
    just = c("left", "bottom"), name = "c")))

upViewport()
downViewport("a")
print(p.ave, newpage = FALSE)
upViewport()
downViewport("b")
print(p.th, newpage = FALSE)
upViewport()
downViewport("c")
print(p.hours, newpage = FALSE)

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Peter <smeldrick at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi - beginning R user question here - each day, over the course of several
> months, I've tracked the time I go to bed, the time I wake up, and my
hours
> spent sleeping. ?What would be a good way to display this information? ?I
> think it would be ideal to show something resembling a bar and whisker
graph
> for each day that would show the interval of hours spent asleep (or perhaps
> just a bar "floating" against a backdrop showing the hours of a
given
> day/night), and that would also have a simple line graph of the total
number
> of hours per day.
>
> Can I get a hint perhaps? ?Thanks very much.
>
> ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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-- 
Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.joshuawiley.com/