Hello gurus, I have a dataframe containing two groups viz., 'control' and 'case', each of these groups contains longitudinal data for 100 subjects. I have to plot all these subjects on a single chart and then put a regression line for each of the group for all the subjects. I have written a function to do the chart grpcharts<-function (dat, group,group2,molecule,cutoff){ dat2<-dat[grep(group,dat$Group),] ylim=log2(c(min(dat2[,molecule],na.rm=T)+4,max(dat2[,molecule],na.rm=T)+1)) all.sub.id<-dat2$Subject.ID if (group=='control'){ col=c('blue') }else{col=c('red')}
if(group2=='case'){ col2=c('red') }else{ col2=c('blue')} uniq.sub.id<-unique(all.sub.id) errcol<-c() for (i in 1: length(uniq.sub.id)) { sub<-dat2[grep(uniq.sub.id[i],dat2$Subject.ID),] sub<- sub[order(sub$Age.at.Sample.Collection),] sub<-sub[sub[,molecule]>cutoff,] sub.id<-uniq.sub.id[i] if (dim(sub)[1]<=1) errcol<-c(errcol, sub.id) if (dim(sub)[1]>1) { par(new=TRUE) plot(log2(sub[,molecule])~sub$Age.at.Sample.Collection, ylab=paste('Log2_',molecule,sep=''),xlab="Age at Sample",pch=1, ylim=ylim, xlim=c(0,25),main=paste(group,'-',molecule)) mod<-loess(log2(sub[,molecule])~Age.at.Sample.Collection, na.action=na.exclude, data=sub) pred<-predict(mod) lines(pred~Age.at.Sample.Collection, data=sub,lwd=1, lty=1) } } dat2<-dat2[order(dat2$Age.at.Sample.Collection),] mod<-loess(log2(dat2[,molecule])~Age.at.Sample.Collection, na.action=na.exclude, data=dat2) pred<-predict(mod) lines(pred~Age.at.Sample.Collection, data=dat2,lwd=2, lty=1,col=col) dat2<-dat[grep(group2,dat$Group),] dat2<-dat2[order(dat2$Age.at.Sample.Collection),] mod<-loess(log2(dat2[,molecule])~Age.at.Sample.Collection, na.action=na.exclude, data=dat2) pred<-predict(mod) lines(pred~Age.at.Sample.Collection, data=dat2,lwd=2, lty=1,col=col2) legend(c(20,20),c(ylim),c(group,group2), lty=1,lwd=2,col=c(col,col2), bty='n') print('done') } the function subsets the data based on the 'group' and plots the datapoints currently I am using a loop to assign the colors under two conditions. I need some pointers to assign the colors to the regression lines for the two groups without using a loop. thanks sharad -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/A-better-way-to-do-this-tp3536576p3536576.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.