I had to to get the data as a matrix and fix a couple of other things- If you would like for me to post my solution then I can. I appoligize my fingers went faster than my brain.
Stephen On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 06/11/2008 12:44 PM stephen sefick wrote: > >> #I am having trouble figuring out this one. I have read the help and I am >> at a loss. what am I missing >> >> x <- structure(list(X = structure(c(6L, 5L, 9L, 2L, 10L, 8L, 7L, 3L, >> 13L, 12L, 11L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("", "April", "August", >> "December", "February", "January", "July", "June", "March", "May", >> "November", "October", "September"), class = "factor"), X2006 = >> c(5987.387, >> 6478.592, 8386, 4651.273, 4339.167, 4631.978, 5217.306, 5846.903, >> 3867.825, 3886.434, 3959.668, 3848.853, NA, NA, NA), X2007 = c(4354.516, >> 5924.315, 5559.468, 3967.5, 5053.56, 4808.694, 4017.632, 3969.883, >> 3910.236, 3782.094, 3961.286, 3711.262, NA, NA, NA), X2008 = c(3685.789, >> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA)), .Names = c("X", >> "X2006", "X2007", "X2008"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, >> -15L)) >> >> barplot(x) >> >> #I would like the months to be on the x-axis and then have the bars be the >> values for the year >> > > Is this what you want? > > barplot(t(x[-1]), names.arg = x$X, las = 2) > > Note that the 'height' argument for barplot() needs to be either a vector > or a matrix. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis [[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.