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> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of David Carlson > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:47 PM > To: 'Macy Anonuevo'; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] plotting multiple variables in 1 bar graph > <snip> > > > > > > > > > > > What I need now is to plot all the variables in 1 site as they > change > > > over time. > > > > Something like > > > > barplot(VADeaths, beside = TRUE, > > col = c("lightblue", "mistyrose", "lightcyan", > > "lavender", "cornsilk"), > > legend = rownames(VADeaths), ylim = c(0, 100)) title(main = > > "Death Rates in Virginia", font.main = 4) > > > > >> If I understand the code correctly, this means that only the > variable > "VADeaths" is plotted over time? I'm hoping to have multiple variables > plotted over time, with the bars clustered by variable so that you can > see how each variable changes over time. Not exactly. VADeaths is a matrix not a single variable. > str(VADeaths) num [1:5, 1:4] 11.7 18.1 26.9 41 66 8.7 11.7 20.3 30.9 54.3 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ..$ : chr [1:5] "50-54" "55-59" "60-64" "65-69" ... ..$ : chr [1:4] "Rural Male" "Rural Female" "Urban Male" "Urban Female" > See ?barplot help page for details. Regards Petr > > > > > > > > > or maybe you could try ggplot2 > > > > >> I tried looking through ggplot2 and I don't understand the code. I > don't > even know where to start. > > > > > > > > Regards > > Petr > > > > > > > > > > > > What Excel produced: > > > > <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4647099/abdeens_benthic_cover.jpg> > > > (The image has mean %cover as the y-value instead of mean count but > the > > > example still applies) > > > > > > I've spent several hours looking for code to do this but didn't > find > > > anything. 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