This:

plot(match(mydf$let, letters), mydf$num)


:-)



On Mar 17, 2016, at 6:48 AM, PIKAL Petr <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> It would be easier if mydf$let was factor
> 
> plot(as.numeric(factor(mydf$let)), mydf$num, xaxt="n")
> axis(1, at=1:3, levels(factor(mydf$let)))
> 
> Cheers
> Petr
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ivan
>> Calandra
>> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:30 AM
>> To: R list
>> Cc: Anne CANER
>> Subject: [R] plot numeric vs character
>> 
>> Dear useRs,
>> 
>> I would like to plot data points in a simple scatterplot. I don't have
>> a lot of data per category, so a boxplot does not make sense.
>> 
>> Here are some sample data:
>> mydf <- data.frame(let=rep(letters[1:3],each=3), num=rnorm(9),
>> stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
>> 
>> I would like to do that, which throws an error, most likely because x
>> is
>> character:
>> plot(mydf$let, mydf$num)
>> 
>> If I convert to factor(), it plots a boxplot with no possibility
>> (AFAIK) to plot points:
>> mydf$let <- factor(mydf$let)
>> plot(mydf$let, mydf$num, type='p')
>> 
>> I know I can use the function points() in a somewhat convoluted manner:
>> plot(mydf$num, xlim=c(1,3), type='n', xaxt='n') axis(side=1, at=1:3,
>> labels=levels(mydf$let)) points(as.numeric(mydf$let), mydf$num)
>> 
>> Isn't there a simple(r) way? Maybe I just missed something obvious...
>> 
>> Thank you in advance for your help,
>> Ivan
>> 
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