Hi Jeff, One way to graph the differences between the two years for the first set of data is via barchart(), a function equivalent to barplot in the lattice package.
Please check if with this portion of code (and with your data) the graph you get is quite self-explanatory. ################################### require(lattice) Lines<-"Parasite Year Infected Leukocytozoon 2009 0.2564 Plasmodium 2009 0.3846 Hemoproteus 2009 0.0769 Leukocytozoon 2010 0.0562 Plasmodium 2010 0.7079 Hemoproteus 2010 0.3034 Any 2009 0.5128 Any 2010 0.7753 " DF <- read.table(textConnection(Lines), skip=1, as.is = TRUE, col.names=c("Parasite", "Year", "Infected") ) barchart( Infected ~ Parasite, data=DF, groups=as.factor(Year), auto.key = list(space = "bottom"), origin=0 ) ############################## Regards, Carlos Ortega www.qualityexcellence.es On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Stratford, Jeffrey < jeffrey.stratf...@wilkes.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I determined the presence of three types parasites in a passerine bird > over two years. I would like to create a bar chart that shows the > proportion infected on the y and year/parasite on the x such that each > type of parasite is grouped together (single label) and a bar for each > year . This would show if there have been changes in the prevalence of > a the parasite over two years. > > > > This is the summary data: > > > > Parasite Year Infected > > Leukocytozoon 2009 0.2564 > > Plasmodium 2009 0.3846 > > Hemoproteus 2009 0.0769 > > Leukocytozoon 2010 0.0562 > > Plasmodium 2010 0.7079 > > Hemoproteus 2010 0.3034 > > Any 2009 0.5128 > > Any 2010 0.7753 > > > > Here are rows 86 to 92. Band and site were recorded differently each > year but these are not part of any calculation. > > > > Year band site Plasmodium Hemoproteus Leukocytozoon Any > > 86 2010 2341-06597 1041 1 1 1 1 > > 87 2010 2341-06598 1041 0 0 0 0 > > 88 2010 2341-06599 1042 1 1 0 1 > > 89 2010 2341-06600 1042 0 1 0 1 > > 90 2009 6443 SOSP0901 0 0 1 1 > > 91 2009 6444 SOSP0902 0 1 0 1 > > 92 2009 6445 SOSP0903 0 0 0 0 > > > > Any suggestions on how to create this plot would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Jeff > > > > > > ***************************************** > > Jeffrey A. Stratford, Ph.D. > > Department of Health and Biological Sciences > > 84 W. South St. > > Wilkes Univertsity, PA 18766 > > 570-332-2942 > > http://web.wilkes.edu/jeffrey.stratford/ > > ***************************************** > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.