Does anyone have any recommendations for producing dotplots with error bars? Are there packages available for this? I searched far and wide and cannot find a suitable option.
I am trying to produce publication-quality figures for my thesis results. Dotplots (Cleveland dotplots) are a much better form of summarizing barchart-type data. It does not appear that any of the main plotting packages in r support dotplots with error bars. Considering the benefit of these plots, I find it difficult to believe that they have not been fully integrated into R. I did find a function "dotplots.errors" available here: http://agrobiol.sggw.waw.pl/~cbcs/articles/CBCS_5_2_2.pdf. However, I have found this function absurdly difficult to use when customizing figures (ordering displays properly, or just simple getting the function to work.) I've been struggling for the last few hours to figure out the error: "error using packet 1 sum not meaningful for factors." Unlike other packages, this function doesnt have a ?dotplots.errors to help guide troubleshooting. I presume this is a technicality due to the a numeric variable being identified as a factor. However, I've double checked that all the numeric columns in the data frame are not factors, and the error persists. I'd really prefer not just calling it quits and resorting to old-school sloppy bar charts, but if thats what I need to do to finish this in a timely manner, then so be it. Thank you, Colin M.S. candidate WWU, Biology dept. ______________________________________________ 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.
