On 2/16/08, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 16, 2008 9:11 AM, sigalit mangut-leiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > This is the first time i'm trying to plot in R. I want to plot estimates
> of
> > OR and their confidence limits, like a scatter plot:
> > the vertical axis should be the estimated OR (with upper and lower conf.
> > limits),
> > and the horizontal exis should be fixed values: (1,0.8,0.7,0.6,0.5,0.4)
> >
> > Here is a part of my code:
> >
> > ...ests=matrix(ncol=3,nrow=6)
> >
> >
> ests[,1]<-c(mean(or1),mean(or14),mean(or15),mean(or16),mean(or17),mean(or18))
> >
> > ests[,2]<-c(cl1,cl14,cl15,cl16,cl17,cl18)
> >
> > ests[,3]<-c(cu1,cu14,cu15,cu16,cu17,cu18)
> >
> > x1<-c(1,0.8,0.7,0.6,0.5,0.4)...
> >
> > Now I have a matrix with three columns: estimate, lower limit of the
> > confidende interval, and upper limit of the confidence interval:
> >
> > [,1] [,2] [,3]
> > [1,] 1.011794 0.6400744 1.383514
> > [2,] 1.646535 1.0421947 2.250875
> > [3,] 2.118518 1.3364878 2.900549
> > [4,] 2.709806 1.6899134 3.729698
> > [5,] 3.570759 2.2510895 4.890428
> > [6,] 4.874569 2.9081958 6.840942
> >
> >
> > The first value in x1 fit the first row in the matrix, etc..
> >
> > I tried the function plotEst like this:
> >
> > plotEst(ests,y = dim(ests)[1]:1, xlab="sensitivity", xtic=x1,
> > xlim=range(xtic))
> >
> > and got the Error:
> >
> > Error in strsplit(x, as.character(split), as.logical(extended),
> > as.logical(fixed),
> > :
> > non-character argument in strsplit()
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> If you had a data.frame with columns, x, estimate, lcl and ucl, then
> you could use ggplot2 as follows:
>
> library(ggplot2)
> qplot(x, estimate, min=lcl, max=ucl, data=df, geom="pointrange")
>
> It's generally a good idea to store data in a data frame.
>
> Hadley
>
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> http://had.co.nz/
>
Another question: Can I add another line to the same plot with qplot?
(like function "lines" in "plot").
Thank You,
Sigalit.
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