As a beginner also try downloading the rattle GUI , with all dependecies =true , or R Cmdr GUI..
these are both packages go to rattle.togaware.com for the rattle instructions and installations .its very very user friendly even though the purists think its infra dig.(kidding- Friday humour) Regards, Ajay Ohri www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > as a bloody R beginner I failed to solve the probably simple problem > to create a barplot of the following data read from a file > > Year A B C > 2000 4 3 0 > 2001 2 1 3 > 2002 1 2 5 > > The Barplot should look like > > 5 | C > 4 | A C > 3 | AB C C > 2 | AB A C BC > 1 | AB ABC ABC > +------------------ > 2000 2001 2002 > > (well, something like that - the colors are encoded as letters in this > ASCII-graphics - assume the coloring / shading as usual). > > My problem is that if I read the table using > > data <- read.table(file='data.dat', sep = '\t', fill=TRUE, header=TRUE ) > > everything looks is read as expected if I try > > data > > but I have no idea how to separate the Matrix (A B C) to specify the > height parameter of barplot as a matrix and the names.arg parameter > for the inscription. Whatever I tried I get > > 'height' must be a vector or a matrix > > and I have no idea to do this right. So I think I'm just facing a > data conversion problem and have to turn data[['Year']] into a vector > and the remaining table into a matrix. > > I guess this is a really simple question - but I failed to find a > solution. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
