Here's a ggplot2 based solution: #load the ggplot2 library library(ggplot2)
#here's the data provided by Andreas countries <- c("U-lande", "Afrika syd for sahara", "Europa og Centralasien", "Lantinamerika og Caribien","Mellemøstenog Nordafrika","Sydasien","ØStasien og stillehaveet", "Kina", "Brasilien") poor_1990 <- c(28.7,46.7,0.5,10.2,2.3,43,29.8,33,14) poor_2004 <- c(18.1,41.1,0.9,8.6,1.5,30.8,9.1,9.9,7.5) #reformat the data data = data.frame(countries,poor_1990,poor_2004) data = melt(data,id=c('countries'),variable_name='year') levels(data$year) = c('1990','2004') #make a new column to make the text justification easier data$hjust = 1-(as.numeric(data$year)-1) #start the percentage plot p = ggplot( data ,aes( x=year ,y=value ,groups=countries ) ) #add the axis labels p = p + labs( x = '\nYear' , y = '%\n' ) #add lines p = p + geom_line() #add the text p = p + geom_text( aes( label=countries , hjust = hjust ) ) #expand the axis to fit the text p = p + scale_x_discrete( expand=c(2,2) ) #show the plot print(p) #rank the countries data$rank = NA data$rank[data$year=='1990'] = rank(data$value[data$year=='1990']) data$rank[data$year=='2004'] = rank(data$value[data$year=='2004']) #start the rank plot r = ggplot( data ,aes( x=year ,y=rank ,groups=countries ) ) #add the axis labels r = r + labs( x = '\nYear' , y = 'Rank\n' ) #add the lines r = r + geom_line() #add the text r = r + geom_text( aes( label=countries , hjust = hjust ) ) #expand the axis to fit the text r = r + scale_x_discrete( expand=c(2,2) ) #show the plot print(r) -- Mike Lawrence Graduate Student Department of Psychology Dalhousie University Looking to arrange a meeting? Check my public calendar: http://tr.im/mikes_public_calendar ~ Certainty is folly... I think. ~ ______________________________________________ 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.