Richard- thank you very very much, this is exactly what I needed. I have not previously used lattice graphics, I will have to experiment more with this package.
Also thanks to everyone for your input. -jh On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu>wrote: > I would use barchart in lattice. To get control of spacing you need to > use the panel.barchart with > the xyplot function. I show two options below. The first labels the > distance scale with the default > values seq(0,300,50), The second labels the bars with their distance > value. > > tmp <- > data.frame(y=c(-0.0002129061,0.0000000000,-0.0002699561,0.0163883061,0.0400000000), > distance=c(0, 71, 172, 206, 292)) > xyplot(y ~ distance, data=tmp, horizontal=FALSE, origin=0, > panel=panel.barchart, box.width=20) > xyplot(y ~ distance, data=tmp, horizontal=FALSE, origin=0, > panel=panel.barchart, box.width=20, > scales=list(x=list(at=tmp$distance))) > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:26 PM, jack hietpas <mikros...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello- I am having trouble making a barplot... >> >> The y-values are: >> >> data=c(-0.0002129061,0.0000000000,-0.0002699561,0.0163883061,0.0400000000). >> >> The x-values are distance=c(0, 71, 172, 206, 292). >> The desired x-range is 0 and ~300+ (kilometers), range=seq(0,300,1) >> >> I would like to make a bar plot with the bar locations along the x-axis >> spaced according to their distances. >> >> I have tried barplot(distance, data)... but this produces a very strange >> plot. >> >> plot(distance, data) is almost correct, except it is a scatter plot. >> >> Thanks for any help you can provide, I must be missing something very >> obvious. >> >> Take care, >> >> -jh >> >> [[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<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.
